Builder's tale of power and lust storms the charts

• Revealed: the developer behind epic tale of love, power, revenge, property and ‘an empire to salvage’

Property developer David Daly sold off the Louis Vuitton building in London to clear his debt to Nama. Now he has stormed the bestsellers list with a steamy novel of power and opulence, Grange Abbey

He escaped Nama only to mysteriously storm his way onto the Irish bestsellers original fiction list with an epic tale of love, lust, power and revenge.

There are no signs on the cover of the newly published thriller Grange Abbey of the true identity of the author of the book who writes under the pseudonym David Delaney.