(Downloaded on my Kindle for $3): This is the third of Patricia Highsmith's five Ripley novels. Preferable to the second, Ripley Underground which had some extraneous characters and credulity-stretching incidents. This time, every moment and character is essential to the story and it all makes sense. The sociopathic Ripley toys with the fate of an innocent acquittance just because he was offended by the man's tone when they meet casually at a party. Murder on a moving train, the mafia, hit jobs, disposing of bodies, all are described with tension and detail. I couldn't put it down. Once again, Highsmith demonstrates how "ordinary" people can be slowly drawn into committing heinous crimes if the price is right.
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