Samiksha Jaiswal (Editor)

The Devil's Tune

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Author
  
Iain Duncan Smith

Country
  
England

Publication date
  
November 6, 2003

Originally published
  
6 November 2003

Genre
  
Thriller

The Devil's Tune t3gstaticcomimagesqtbnANd9GcRClur0QtHxiRF3q

Publisher
  
Robson Books (a division of Anova Books)

The Devil's Tune is a novel by the Conservative Party politician Iain Duncan Smith, published in November 2003.

The book is notable for its uniformly negative reception, such that, as of March 2013, a paperback edition was never published.

Literary significance and criticism

  • "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 Devil's Tune by Iain Duncan Smith is scarcely the greatest literature of all time but as a thriller and easy read it will while away a plane journey (or, at 400-plus pages, a couple of plane journeys) perfectly pleasantly...the dialogue is severely cliché-ridden but people do have a habit of talking in clichés."
    • Ann Widdecombe, Conservative politician and novelist
  • "It's not exactly Tolstoy, is it?"
    • Edwina Currie, Conservative politician and 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

    References

    The Devil's Tune Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA