When a troubled young 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, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's 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.

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• Ripley Under Water: A Virago Modern Classic (Ripley Series)
• Ripley's Game: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
• Ripley Under Ground: A Virago Modern Classic (Ripley Series Book 2)
• The Talented Mr Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic (Ripley Series)
• The Cry of the Owl: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)