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The Mind of a Madman
- Norway's Struggle to Understand Anders Breivik
- Narrated by: Gary Dikeos
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
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Editorial reviews
On July 22nd of 2011, Anders Behring Breivik went on a killing spree that claimed the lives of 77 innocent people in Olso, Norway. The question everyone was asking was, "how could someone do that?" and "why?" Richard Orange's The Mind of a Madman provides a comprehensive look at the court procedures that followed Breivik's attack. Orange includes his own personal court notes, police interviews, three court psychiatric reports and transcripts from the trial in order to present a complete and non-sensational account of Beivik's attacks and the resulting court procedures. Gary Dikeos' voice is measured and somber, honoring Norway's struggle to make sense of what happened.
Publisher's Summary
Anders Behring Breivik killed more people in his twin terror attack in Norway last year than any lone gunman ever had in peacetime before him. When he was arrested, he claimed to act on behalf of the Knights Templar, a militant network sworn to protect Europe from Islam. But Norwegian police could find no evidence such a group existed.
Was Breivik a genuine terrorist, driven by far-right ideology, or a deluded madman? Over the next year, this question would draw in police specialists, lawyers, psychiatrists, and experts in the far-right, culminating in a trial that ceased to be simply about guilt or innocence. Instead, the court would confront a more troubling question: how could such brutal acts become possible for a young man brought up in some of the most privileged parts of Oslo?
In Mind of a Madman, journalist Richard Orange draws on his own court reporting, three court psychiatric reports, police interviews, and transcripts from the trial to give the most complete account yet of a shocked society's attempt to understand the killer.
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-07-2022
The narrator ruins anything good about this
Couldn't finish this after the narrators attempts to put in Polish accents. The actual story might be worth reading, although it was a bit fanciful and unnecessarily descriptive at times.
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- Adam Webb
- 02-04-2019
Some insight into the far right
I listened to this hoping to gain some insight into the minds of far right terrorists following the New Zealand terror attacks. The whole matter turned on the psychological assessment of the offenders mind and the various arguments back and forth regarding this are very interesting. They speak more of the far right terrorists mind set than discussing finding nazi memorabilia.
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