在线阅读本书 Ripley is back. This new publication of Patricia Highsmith's classic inaugurates the complete Ripley series at Norton. Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley —immortalized in the 1998 film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gywneth Paltrow—is an unforgettable introduction to this debonair confidence man, whose talent for self-invention and calculated murder is chronicled in four subsequent novels.

雷普利想脫身，他要金錢、成功和過好的生活——甚至願意用殺人來換取。他天衣無縫的編造謊言、掩蓋真相，超乎常人的天賦讓他一次次化險為夷…… 湯姆．雷普利受朋友狄奇父親之託，從紐約前往義大利勸狄奇返鄉。湯姆滿懷喜悅心情赴歐，全心希望可以改頭換面，重新出發，並與狄奇結為摯友。然而他的期望落空了，心有未甘之下，他萌生殺機，並為了掩飾罪行扮演雙面人的角色。全書細膩描寫瑞普利犯罪、飾罪的心路轉折，風格獨特，扣人心弦。