by Patricia Highsmith · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433920799
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«El amigo americano» (The Ripley Game) is the suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Anagrama in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Jonathan Trevanny, a modest man with a terminal illness, leads a peaceful life with his wife and son. Tom Ripley proposes a criminal job: kill two mobsters in exchange for money to secure his family's future. Once the deal is accepted, Jonathan's conscience dulls and he becomes trapped in a spiral of corruption and suspense.
It is the third novel in the Tom Ripley series, originally published as Ripley's Game in 1974. This edition includes the translation by Jordi Beltrán.
For readers of suspense and crime fiction, especially those who follow the Tom Ripley series.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
