The third novel in Highsmiths Ripley series, adapted for the big screen in 2003, in a film starring John Malkovich and Ray Winstone. Tom Ripley detests murder - unless it is absolutely necessary. If possible he prefers someone else to do the dirty work; in this case, a victim of a fatal disease, with no criminal record, who will murder for a reward, in order to provide for his young widow and child.