'One of the single most dramatic events of the Second World War, Linskey makes the mission of Jan Kubis and Joseph Gabcik impossible to put down' - Northern Echo Ungentlemanly Warfare is a captivating historical thriller about a pivotal and dramatic event from the Second World War. Harry Walsh is ruthless, unorthodox and ungentlemanly. If Walsh fails, there is no prospect of allied victory in Europe. Loathed by his own commanding officer, haunted by the death of his closest friend and trapped in a loveless marriage, Harry Walsh is close to burn out when he is ordered to assassinate the man behind the ME 163 Komet, Hitler's miracle jet fighter. “Coote is a natural, wryly dissecting the workings of human desire.” -The New York Times Book ReviewĪ soldier and a spy, an officer but not quite a gentleman, Captain Harry Walsh is SOE's secret weapon. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires.

But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn’t he have known better? When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. We all know that manipulating someone naïve and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrong-even evil.

Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession. enthralling and ultimately sobering” (Kirkus Reviews). Summary A young novelist “turns Nabokov on his head in this tale of an Aussie Lolita who sets her sights on a witless teacher . . .

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