A CURIOUS MADNESS An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II

In a deep voice, narrator Robertson Dean captures the serious tone of this dual biography of the author's grandfather, Major Daniel Jaffe, and the accused Japanese war criminal Okawa Shumei, whom Jaffe examined as part of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials after WWII. Robertson's narration of this extensive work is in itself well done. But the work contains a lot of material that is seemingly unrelated until the two subjects actually interact. Robertson's sonorous voice has an appropriate tone for the subject matter but often seems slow and lacking in expression--a problem that is more a reflection of the text than his reading. Those interested in this topic will most likely find this production interesting. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2014]