Ripley's Game
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First published in 1974, Ripley’s Game finds Patricia Highsmith’s most beguiling creation, Tom Ripley, settled into a life of cultivated ease in the French countryside. Wealthy, married to the elegant Héloïse, and surrounded by the comforts of Belle Ombre, Ripley is beginning to find retirement tedious. When an old criminal associate asks him to arrange two murders, Ripley sees an opportunity for amusement and revenge, drawing an unsuspecting Englishman, Jonathan Trevanny, into a dangerous scheme.
The third novel in Highsmith’s celebrated Ripley sequence, Ripley’s Game is a study in manipulation, moral compromise, and the curious seductions of power. As Jonathan is drawn further into violence, Highsmith explores the fragile boundary between ordinary respectability and criminality, while allowing her charmingly amoral antihero to remain unnervingly close to the reader. Set between the French countryside and the shadowy world of international crime, the novel is distinguished by its dry humour, psychological precision, and quietly escalating menace.
From the book
“There’s no such thing as a perfect murder... That’s just a parlour game, trying to dream one up.”
— Patricia Highsmith, Ripley’s Game
On Ripley’s Game
“The ultimate in elegant, amused, sophisticated sangfroid.”
— Kirkus Reviews