{"id":4929,"date":"2026-01-04T00:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-talented-mr-ripley-highsmith-patricia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:56:15","slug":"the-talented-mr-ripley-highsmith-patricia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-talented-mr-ripley-highsmith-patricia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Talented Mr. Ripley – Highsmith, Patricia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom glanced behind him and saw the man coming out of the Green Cage, heading his way. Tom walked faster. There was no doubt that the man was after him. Tom had noticed him five minutes ago, eyeing him carefully from a table, as if he weren\u2019t quite<\/span> sure, but almost. He had looked sure enough for Tom to down his drink in a hurry, pay and get out.<\/p>\n

At the corner Tom leaned forward and trotted across Fifth Avenue. There was Raoul\u2019s. Should he take a chance and go in for another drink? Tempt fate and all that? Or should he beat it over to Park Avenue and try losing him in a few dark doorways? He went into Raoul\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Automatically, as he strolled to an empty space at the bar, he looked around to see if there was anyone he knew. There was the big man with red hair, whose name he always forgot, sitting at a table with a blonde girl. The red-haired man waved a hand, and Tom\u2019s hand went up limply in response. He slid one leg over a stool and faced the door challengingly, yet with a flagrant casualness.<\/p>\n

\u2018Gin and tonic, please,\u2019 he said to the barman.<\/p>\n

Was this the kind of man they would send after him? Was he, wasn\u2019t he, was he? He didn\u2019t look like a policeman or a detective at all. He looked like a businessman, somebody\u2019s father, well-dressed, well-fed, greying at the temples, an air of uncertainty about him. Was that the kind they sent on a job like this, maybe to start chatting with you in a bar, and then bang!\u2014the hand on the shoulder, the other hand displaying a policeman\u2019s badge. Tom Ripley, you\u2019re under arrest<\/span>. Tom watched the door.<\/p>\n

Here he came. The man looked around, saw him and immediately looked away. He removed his straw hat, and took a place around the curve of the bar.<\/p>\n

My God, what did he want? He certainly wasn\u2019t a pervert<\/span>, Tom thought for the second time, though now his tortured brain groped and produced the actual word, as if the word could protect him, because he would rather the man be a pervert than a policeman. To a pervert, he could simply say, \u2018No, thank you,\u2019 and smile and walk away. Tom slid back on the stool, bracing himself.<\/p>\n

Tom saw the man make a gesture of postponement to the barman, and come around the bar towards him. Here it was! Tom stared at him, paralysed. They couldn\u2019t give you more than ten years, Tom thought. Maybe fifteen, but with good conduct\u2014In the instant the man\u2019s lips parted to speak, Tom had a pang of desperate, agonized regret.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Book Preview Tom glanced behind him and saw the man coming out of the Green Cage, heading his way. Tom walked faster. There was no doubt that the man was after him. Tom had noticed him five minutes ago, eyeing him carefully from a table, as if he weren\u2019t quite sure, but almost. He had … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[331],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-patricia-highsmith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}