He also wrote the best-selling book “The IRA – A Secret History”. According to Moloney, Gerry Adams would have never been able to turn the republican movement in a political direction – unless he had been a member on the IRA’s ruling body. He also claims that Adams was the commander of the IRA’s Belfast Brigade during the time period when Jean McConville was kidnapped and executed. Adams’ protests that he was in prison when McConville was murdered do not match up with the facts, according to Moloney – as McConville was actually kidnapped six months before Adams was jailed.