Ripley's Game

The third Ripley novel finds Tom settled in his French home, still enjoying his comforts. A slight from an acquaintance leads him to a petty and malicious plan. He draws Jonathan Trevanny, a quiet picture framer in Hamburg who is seriously ill and worried about his family's future, into a dangerous criminal world.

The novel explores how an ordinary decent man may be pushed toward violence, and how Tom's idle mischief has serious consequences for others. Tense and darkly ironic, it has been adapted for film more than once.