Author : Patricia Highsmith
This was more normal than I thought.
Tom Ripley in this installment of the series has already enough money and happiness in the world to want to dabble in crime anymore. Until a request from an acquaintance came at a perfect timing that he can't refrain himself from suggesting the perfect murder.
Using the powers of persuasion and threat of death, Ripley brought two strangers together to plan murders of some members of the Mafia. The plan backlashed somehow, and Ripley found himself changing from a spectator to having an active role in events.
Mafiosi dead, Hamburg safe, money earned, and one regretted but inevitable death. Ripley tried to persuade himself that this death will definitely come in the space of few months, so it didn't matter.
Ripley wasn't that noir in the first place for me to judge him. He was just taking chances and putting stuff together, great schemer he is.
Definitely on the light side of noir, although the book cover and presence of garrots suggest otherwise.
Rating : 8.5/10
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