by Patricia Highsmith · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433930156
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«El amigo americano (El juego de Ripley)» is the psychological suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Jonathan Trevanny, an honest man ill with leukaemia, leads a peaceful existence with his wife and son. Tom Ripley, a manipulative and unscrupulous character, proposes he murder two mobsters in exchange for money to secure his family's future. Accepting the task plunges Jonathan into a spiral of moral corruption where the line between crime and necessity blurs, while Highsmith dissects with precision the slow process of degradation of a man haunted by death. The novel combines police tension with the psychological conflict of its protagonists.
It is the third novel in the series starring Tom Ripley, which continued with «Tras los pasos de Ripley» and «Ripley en peligro». Translation by Jordi Beltrán.
For readers of crime fiction and psychological thrillers, especially those who follow the Tom Ripley saga; the work inspired the eponymous film by Wim Wenders.
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.
