The Devil's Tune (book)
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The Devil's Tune was a book by the Conservative Party politician Iain Duncan Smith, published in November 2003.
The book's publisher Robson Books described the novel as "an ingenious fast-paced thriller with an intriguing cast of characters reaching the highest level of office" when it was released. One major criticism leveled at the book was that the fact the lead character was called Isaac D. Smyth and was leader of the Bonservative political party, which many reviewers believed demonstrated egomania on the author's part.
The book is notable for its incredibly negative reception, such that a paperback edition was never published.
[edit] Reviews
- "And I honestly wish I didn't have to say this, because it feels like kicking a man when he is down... but, really, it's terrible. Human sympathy strains in one direction; critical judgment the other. Terrible, terrible, terrible."
- Sam Leith, Daily Telegraph
- "The dialogue is severely cliché-ridden"
- Ann Widdecombe, Conservative politician and sometime novelist
- "It's not exactly Tolstoy, is it?"
- Edwina Currie, Conservative politician and sometime novelist
- "IDS has as much chance of doing a Winston Churchill as Rapper Tony Benn has of going quadruple platinum"
- John Sutherland, Northcliffe Professor of English Literature, University College London
