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Ripley Under Ground

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 BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

The second novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series.

'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES

'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'The sequence of novels allows Highsmith to create a frightening sense of momentum' GUARDIAN

Tom Ripley is now the owner of a beautiful estate in France, a wealthy art collector and married to an heiress. The Buckmaster Gallery is staging an exhibition by the celebrated artist, Derwatt, but an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt - but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead.

Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean, but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder.

Ripley Under Ground is an ingenious novel of masks and identity, illusion and reality, and is followed by Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water.©2016 Patricia Highsmith (P)2016 Little Brown Book Group Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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It is rumoured that Pat spent most of her waking hours drunk, to one degree or another . This book seems to confirm a muddled disjointed approach to plot and story line with plot holes so big you could drive a bus through them , some of it is brilliant , some of it terrible , a real disappointment. I have seen all the films , this is the first of the TR books I have read , the screen writers must have had to work very hard editing the 2 best known books made into movies to make sense of them .

Plot full of holes

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Tom Ripley is a man without conscience who desires to live a comfortable and elegant life. If threats to this can't be resolved through his lies, charm, and persuasion, they are resolved through simple acts of murder. The consequences of these are evaded by employing his gifts as an opportunist and improviser.

Meandering but fascinating throughout.

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what a let down from the first book. the storyline doesn't really go anywhere, very dragged out. very disappointed that it had a different person reading

let down from the first book

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Another excellent volume in the Ripley series. Quite a different novel to the first in the series, but again wonderfully enjoyable and very well narrated. I have already downloaded volume three "Ripley's game".

Hooked on Highsmith

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It could be because I had such high expectations, but I was rather disappointed with this book. I loved The Talented Mr Ripley, but this was not in the same league, either in the story or the narrator. It did not have a lot of tension and I could see where it was going more or less all the time. The narrator, whilst competent and very good at accents, did not evoke the character of Ripley as David Menkin did so brilliantly in The Talented Mr Ripley. I have enjoyed several other books on Audible by Patricia Highsmith. This one, whilst not bad, was the least enjoyable.

Not Patricia Highsmith’s Best

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