The Devil's Tune

John Grande, a struggling London art dealer, is thrown what he thinks is a lifeline when he is given the opportunity of handling a collection of rare masters, housed in a villa above the cliffs of Positano in Italy. There, on the beach, he briefly encounters Laura Buckley, the glamorous producer of New York's most prestigious TV news programme. Neither could know that their lives were to become linked in a terrifying web of intrigue and deceit. Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Iain Duncan Smith's debut novel is an ingenious fast-paced thriller with an intriguing cast of characters reaching the highest level of office. All are being controlled and manipulated by a powerful, evil man seeking revenge for incidents reaching back to World War Two, involving art thefts, possible Nazi collaboration and murder... his actions prove to be explosive. About the Author Iain Duncan Smith saw active service in Northern Ireland and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1992 he was elected MP for Chingford and from 1992 97 he was secretary of the Conservative Back Bench Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs Committee and a member of the Conservative Back Bench Defence Committee. In 1997 he was re-elected to Parliament and became Shadow Social Security Secretary, then, from 1999, Shadow Defence Secretary. In September 2001, at the age of 47, he was elected Leader of the Conservative Party in the first ever ballot of the Party's membership. This is his first book. Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Iain Duncan Smith's debut novel concerns a cast of characters all being controlled and manipulated by an evil man seeking revenge for incidents reaching back to World War II, involving art thefts, Nazi collaboration and murder.