His Majesty's Agent Author:David Shahar, Dalya Bilu (Translator) Wounded in the head while serving as a sergeant in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in North Africa during World War II, Heinrich Reinhold, a German-born Jerusalemite, is tended to by Tamara Koren, the wife of a fellow soldier. And soon Tamara becomes not only Heinrich's lover but also his supplier of angst and tsuris. The problem is n... more »ot their sexual relationship, which is torrid. The problem is that Tamara is mercurial, given to odd duplicities on an elemental level that come to mirror Reinhold's own more complex duplicities: he becomes an Irgun member, yet also a British agent during the War of Independence; then he becomes a gun runner and later, finally - under the name "Joseph Orwell" - he's a fabulously wealthy American industrialist and supporter (with arms and money) of Israel during the Yom Kippur War. And through all these changes of identity, there is always his ever-present associate - Princess Polina, a.k.a. Tamara. (... (Kirkus Reviews)« less