The Boy Who Followed Ripley
16 September 2008
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
Description
"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing." —Frank Rich
The Boy Who Followed Ripley, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's darkest and most twisted creations. 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.
Reviews
"Highsmith skews your sense of literary justice, [tilting] your internal scales of right and wrong." — Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Exquisitely chilling." — Olivia Laing, author of Crudo