Mr. Ripley's Game (1974) is the third book in a series about the most famous character of the American novelist. Murderer "only when necessary", gourmet and aesthete, kind and quite good-natured Ripley does not look like a banal bone breaker He lives in a world where fiction and reality are indistinguishable, the boundaries between good and evil are very conditional, and crime is a game, a chess game, an innocent entertainment between playing the harpsichord and gardening; a kind of puzzle, only the "heads" at stake are always real.. Like other Ripley books, Mr. Ripley's Game has been a success with readers and has been translated into many languages. Based on the novel in 1977, Wim Wenderson directed the film American Friend, in which the role of Ripley was played by Dennis Hopper, and in 2002 a new film of the same name with John Malkovich in the title role was released.