Tamar is a book is a book set in the Second World War which shows the struggle that the special operations unit face all over Europe, both work-wise and personally.

In the winter before the end the Second World War , after the Arnhem attack fails, two young Dutchmen, trained in England by the Special Ops unit, parachute into the heart of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands; one of the Dutchmen is charged with setting up one of the resistance groups in the area. The other is a wireless operator maintaining contact with London.

One of the Dutchmen returns to an earlier field of operations and to Marijke, his lover. He is always organising and negotiating. The second Dutchman is dangerously anchored to his apparatus, stuck in an insane asylum, going out only to travel to the other installations from which he can make transmissions, posing as a doctor, in constant dread of being arrested during a transmission. With the codenames Dart and Tamar, they take the identities of Ernst Lubbers and Christiaan Boogart, but their own names are never ever given out. After the war, one the men comes back to England as William Hyde with his wife Marijke. During his stay he brings up a son and persuades himself to give the name Tamar to his child. Fifteen years later he jumps again, without a parachute, to his death – or does he?

The story of Tamar is written in two narratives, one as Tamar and Dart. Most of the time they have to cope with the wait in boredom for their next task. The book is an extremely well-written story with great detail from cover to cover. making the reader feel as though they are really experiencing the goings-on within the book. Here is just one of the great line in the book

"The mud had solidified into frost-capped peaks and ripples that looked like mountain ranges seen from the cockpit of an aircraft."

All in all I would give Tamar 8/10.