Title: The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley #4)
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
Time periods: 1945-1990