Six years have passed since Tom Ripley arrived in Europe and, having committed the murder of Dickie Greenfield, inherited his money, and with it the habits of rich people who do not have to think much about their daily bread. Tom is happily married to the daughter of a millionaire and lives in a luxurious 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 its peaceful course. A scam involving the forgery and sale of paintings, which Ripley got involved in a few years ago, threatens to come out. And Ripley goes to London, not caring at all about the price that will have to be paid for the case not to be made public ... 'Mr. Ripley Underground' 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 they are indistinguishable, and a fake sometimes seems to be more valuable than the original. Like other books of the Ripliades, the book was a huge success with readers, was translated into many languages, and a film with Barry Pepper in the title role was made based on it in 2005 (the film was released in the Russian box office under the title "The Return of Mr. Ripley").