The boy who followed Ripley

Description:

Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping. In this masterful thriller, Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer. "Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing." —Frank Rich, New York Times Magazine

subjects: Criminals,  Fiction,  History,  Psychopaths,  Serial murderers,  Tom Ripley (Fictitious character),  Criminals, fiction,  Serial murders, fiction,  Ripley, tom (fictitious character), fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general

Places: Berlin (Germany),  France

Times: 1945-1990