“ What’s Santa’s Little Helper doing to that dog? Looks like he’s trying to jump over, but he can’t quite make it. This was another audiobook that I hadn’t heard anything about, but it had gotten some good reviews and was one of the ones audible.com was promoting, so I decided to give it a shot. The book is about a son whose father has recently died, and he begins to find information about how his father was court marshalled during WWII. In researching more, he learns how his father, a JAG officer in the army, tries find another officer (Robert Martin) which is a part of the OSS, a secret department of the military which runs special operations. The book goes back and forth b/t the son and the father, but spends about 85% of time retelling the story of his father…David Dubin. I must say the reader for this book was excellent, and I’m sure that helped, but the story itself was excellent in my opinion. I’m not going to say it was a cliff hanger or anything, but it just seemed to flow smoothly and catch my attention, helping me to recall the time and places we spent in France and Germany.
The book seems to be more guy oriented as I look back on it now, although there is a love interest in the story. Her name is Gita Lodz, and judging by the way she is described she seems like quite a woman…ambitious, sexy, driven…geez, that sounds vaguely familiar to a woman I know. 
Anyways, I’ve never done this before, but I thought I would copy down Amazon.com’s editorial reviews of the book, and let you compare what they say to what I have said. Of course, I wrote my review before reading their excerpt, so as not to be influenced.
Starred Review. When retired newspaperman Stewart Dubinsky (last seen in 1987’s Presumed Innocent) discovers letters his deceased father wrote during his tour of duty in WWII, a host of family secrets come to light. In Turow’s ambitious, fascinating page-turner, a “ferocious curiosity” compels the divorced Dubinsky to study his “remote, circumspect” father’s papers, which include love letters written to a fiancée the family had never heard of, and a lengthy manuscript, which his father wrote in prison and which includes the shocking disclosure of his father’s court-martial for assisting in the escape of OSS officer Robert Martin, a suspected spy. The manuscript, hidden from everyone but the attorney defending him, tells of Capt. David Dubin’s investigation into Martin’s activities and of both men’s entanglements with fierce, secretive comrade Gita Lodz. From optimistic soldier to disenchanted veteran, Dubin–who, via the manuscript, becomes the book’s de facto narrator–describes the years of violence he endured and of a love triangle that exacted a heavy emotional toll. Dubinsky’s investigations prove revelatory at first, and life-altering at last. Turow makes the leap from courtroom to battlefield effortlessly. (Nov. 1)
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