One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of this crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades. This book offers not just a forensic account of a brutal crime but a vivid portrait of the world in which it happened. It weaves the stories of Jean McConville and her family with those of Dolours Price, Gerry Adams, Brendan Hughes, and other indelible figures.