It has been six years since Tom Ripley arrived in Europe and, after killing Dickie Greenfield, inherited his money, and with it the habits of rich people who do not have to think much about daily bread. Tom is happily married to the millionaire's daughter and lives in a luxury French villa near Orly. Like Dickie, Mr. Ripley, a newly converted aesthete and hedonist, devotes his leisure time to painting; he is surrounded by beautiful works of art, immortal music delights the ear. His life seems serene until a phone call from London disrupts her peaceful flow. The scam related to the counterfeiting and sale of paintings, which Ripley got involved in a few years ago, threatens to float out. And Ripley goes to London, not caring about the price that will have to pay for the case not to get publicity … Mr. Ripley Under the Ground is the second book in the series about Mr. Ripley, the most popular character of Patricia Highsmith, who lives in a strange world where the dead rise from the graves, where the game and reality are indistinguishable, and counterfeiting sometimes seems more valuable than the original. Like other books of the "ripliada", the book was a huge success with readers, was translated into many languages, and on its motives in 2005 a film was shot with Barry Pepper in the title role (in the Russian box office, the film was released under the title "The Return of Mr. Ripley").