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¿Quién es Mr. Ripley? En este volumen reunimos las cinco novelas que protagonizó, empezando por su primera aparición en A pleno sol. En La máscara de Ripley, casado con una rica heredera, regresa como un hombre aparentemente respetable. Y luego aparecerá aún en otras tres novelas: en El amigo americano, involucrado una vez más en una de sus ambiguas relaciones con otro hombre; en Tras los pasos de Ripley, donde conoce a un extraño adolescente que no quiere separarse de él, y en Ripley en peligro, el brillante cierre de este quinteto de novelas magistrales.

Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called “the glorious lust of doing good,” but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in English fiction whose human virtues and vices are realistically depicted. This edition is set from the text of the Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding.

The vibrant economy of the new Vietnam is a shiny lure for Western capital. Companies are racing to uncover ideal opportunities. Not wanting to be left behind, Hendley Associates has sent their best analyst, Jack Ryan, Jr., to mine for investment gold. And he may have found some in a rare earth mining company—GeoTech. But a trip with a Hendley colleague to the Highlands to observe the company’s operations takes a treacherous turn when their helicopter is shot down. Some things haven’t changed, and Vietnam is still the plaything of powerful neighbors. The Chinese are determined to keep Jack from finding the truth about what exactly is being processed at the isolated factory. Now Jack is in a race for his life. He’s got to stay one step ahead of a pack of killers while supporting his wounded friend. He’ll get no help from the government, because in the jungle, it’s the shadow state that rules.