Synopsis
A taut tale of murder, radicalised politics, institutionalised violence and the deep scars left by such turmoil – this shocking investigation vividly encapsulates 'the Troubles' of the 1970s.
One early December evening in 1972, a young widow named Jean McConville was abducted, in front of her children, from the family’s apartment in Belfast. She was never seen alive again, and her disappearance would haunt her ten children, the perpetrators, and a whole society in Northern Ireland that has struggled to come to terms with the atrocities committed by all sides during the decades-long conflict known as ‘the Troubles’.
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About the Author
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, and the author of ‘The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld’ and the ‘American Dream and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping’. He writes about legal issues, crime, national security, and foreign policy. (And pop culture occasionally, too.)
In 2014, Patrick received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, for his story "A Loaded Gun.� The recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and fellowships at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Patrick has been a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and the Overseas Press Club�s Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Book on International Affairs.
Patrick grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts and went to college at Columbia. He received Masters degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, and a JD from Yale Law School.
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