Ripley's Game

Having accumulated considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion, serial murder—Tom Ripley, now in his prime middle age, is no longer the struggling young artist of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Sitting on his posh French estate with his elegant bunch heiress wife (with her own dark past), Ripley has finally achieved stability and is looking for ways to both settle down and remain interesting at the same time. Tom's chance arises when he is asked by a friend to help with a scheme that will repay an insult and give him more avenues to explore. With one of Patricia Highsmith's most psychologically nuanced novels in The Talented Mr. Ripley's Game, the third in the series, they found that its ability to manipulate the tropes of the genre was remarkable and deftly handled by Highsmith in its dark, absurd humor. It is also memorable for giving viewers insight into its protagonist's psyche, as well as for introducing them to one of literature's most seductive sociopaths: Tom Ripley.