The Talented Mr. Ripley

«The Talented Mr. Ripley» — the fourth novel about the most famous character of American writer Patricia Highsmith, immersing the reader in her strange, closed, irrational world of skewed moral values and blurred lines between good and evil. In Mr. Ripley, it is hard to recognize the penniless young man with a dark past who «will stop at nothing». The reader meets Tom Ripley in his luxurious French estate, where he enjoys his dahlias, playing the harpsichord, and other innocent pleasures, preferring the sale of brushes and paints to the distribution of counterfeit paintings. However, his quiet life changes when Ripley meets a sixteen-year-old American from a very wealthy family who has run away from home after the mysterious death of his father, a food industry magnate. Ripley feels a strange sympathy for the teenager, events unfold rapidly, and soon this unexpected pair finds themselves embroiled in the criminal world of West Berlin in the 1970s…