by Patricia Highsmith · RBA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447300280
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«El amigo americano» (The Ripley Game) is the psychological suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by RBA in hardback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Jonathan Trevanny leads a peaceful, grey existence with his wife and son; ill with leukaemia and with nothing to lose, he accepts Tom Ripley's proposal to murder two mobsters for money. The assignment drags him into a world of crime and betrayal where his conscience and morality are called into question.
Third instalment in the Tom Ripley series; originally published as «Ripley's Game» in 1974. This Spanish edition, translated by Jordi Beltrán, belongs to the Narrativa Actual collection (no. 29).
For readers of crime fiction and psychological suspense, especially those following 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.
