Fearing that he was directly responsible for the death of his father, an American multimillionaire food magnate, sixteen-year-old Frank Pierson learns of a plot to kidnap him and enlists the aid of Tom Ripley, an American expatriate in Paris
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More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior (John Freeman Pittsburgh Gazette)
First published in 1980, this is the fourth novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series.
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