This the best historical non-fiction I’ve read in awhile. It might be the best book I’ll read this year. Patrick Radden Keefe takes a subject as serpentine and fraught with strong emotions as The Troubles in Ireland and presents it in a clear concise that is powerful but never melodramatic. He uses the kidnapping and murder of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten who was pulled from her apartment by masked men in 1972 and never seen again until her body was discovered in 2003, as a framing device for his narrative. It was an open secret who was […]
“For the love of one’s country is a terrible thing”
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |
