**Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that ‘penniless young man without a past’ who will stop at nothing. —Frank Rich** *The Boy Who Followed Ripley* , the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith’s darkest and most twisted creations. Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping. In this masterful thriller, Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer.