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
