When a troubled young American runaway arrives on Tom Ripley"s French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he"d left behind, the seedy underworld of Berlin and kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy"s protector as a friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)