![]() ![]() But the international dragnet isn’t always a match for crime bosses who mount populist charm offensives. Drug Enforcement Administration had an astonishing 80-plus offices in more than 60 countries. Whether his subject is a drug cartel kingpin, a Wall Street swindler or an amoral weapons dealer, his stories don’t lack for memorable facts and elegant aphorisms. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks collects a dozen pieces he’s penned as a staff writer for The New Yorker. If Say Nothing confirmed that he’s among the finest true-crime storytellers working today, Keefe’s new book suggests he won’t soon relinquish that status. Then, just as I was completing the manuscript, I made a startling discovery.” His digging essentially solved the case. ![]() His main concern? That those who knew “the whole truth of this dark saga”-the 1972 kidnapping and murder of Jean McConville, a Belfast mother of ten-“would take it with them to their graves. Near the end of his enthralling 2019 book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe recalls the frustration he felt while trying to solve a cold case that had stymied detectives for almost fifty years. ![]()
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