The One Who Followed Mister Ripley is the fourth novel about the most famous character of the American writer Patricia Highsmith, drawing the reader into her strange, closed, irrational world of displaced moral values and blurred boundaries between good and evil. In Mr. Ripley one can now hardly recognize that beggar, penniless, boy with a dark past who “will stop at nothing.” The reader meets Tom Ripley at his luxurious French estate, where he enjoys his dahlias, playing the harpsichord and other innocent pleasures, and prefers selling brushes and paints to selling fake paintings. However, his quiet life changes when Ripley meets a sixteen-year-old American from a very rich family who ran away from home after the mysterious death of his father, a food industry magnate. Ripley develops a strange sympathy for the teenager, events quickly develop, and soon this unlikely pair becomes involved in the criminal underworld of 1970s West Berlin...