Who is the disturbing and elusive Tom Ripley? He first appeared in The Talented Mr. Ripley. At the beginning of the novel, he was a shy young New Yorker. Until a millionaire asked her to convince his son to come home. And, at the end of the book, Tom Ripley was already a very self-confident man, established in Europe, and with a new interest, painting, although this happy transformation was sustained by two murders, forgeries and lies. Twenty years later, Patricia Highsmith had her antihero reappear in Ripley's Mask: married to a rich heiress, he is now a seemingly respectable man. Ripley will return in three more novels: in The American Friend, involved once again in one of his ambiguous relationships with another man; in In Ripley's footsteps, where he meets a strange teenager who does not want to leave him; and in Ripley in Danger, the brilliant closing of this quintet of masterful novels, where the insufferable Pritchards seem to know some of Ripley's dark secrets, and are willing to use them.

In this second volume we bring together the novels The American Friend; In Ripley's Footsteps and Ripley in Danger.

"Ripley's five novels are funny, admirable black comedies" (John Williams, The Financial Times); "Ripley's books are a marvel, one of the most intelligent and stimulating diversions that can be offered to a reader" (H. R. F. Keating, The Times).