When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripleys French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought hed left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boys protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all. The Boy Who Followed Ripley is followed by Ripley Under Water.
When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripleys French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought hed left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boys protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all. The Boy Who Followed Ripley is followed by Ripley Under Water.