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Discover the fourth novel in the iconic, propulsive RIPLEY series - now a major Netflix series starring Andrew Scott

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''The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable'' THE TIMES

''It''s hard to imagine anyone interested in modern fiction who has not read the Ripley novels'' DAILY TELEGRAPH

''Peerlessly Disturbing'' NEW YORKER

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley''s French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he''d left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy''s protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all. Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer.

The Boy Who Followed Ripley is followed by Ripley Under Water

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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

The Boy Who Followed Ripley

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 4 June 2015
      ISBN-13 9780349006253
      978-0349006253
      ISBN-10 0349006253
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      Books by Patricia Highsmith

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Discover the fourth novel in the iconic, propulsive RIPLEY series - now a major Netflix series starring Andrew Scott

      ***
      ''The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable'' THE TIMES

      ''It''s hard to imagine anyone interested in modern fiction who has not read the Ripley novels'' DAILY TELEGRAPH

      ''Peerlessly Disturbing'' NEW YORKER

      When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley''s French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he''d left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy''s protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all. Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer.

      The Boy Who Followed Ripley is followed by Ripley Under Water

      Trade Review
      More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior -- John Freeman Pittsburgh Gazette

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