Thomas Ripley is a low-key con artist living in New York and posing as a collection agency in order to deceive people into sending him money. He runs into Herbert Greenleaf at a bar. Herbert is the father of an acquaintance of Ripley's, Dickie Greenleaf. Dickie has gone off to Europe and shows no signs of returning home. Herbert hires Ripley to go find him and convince him to come home.
You cringe for Ripley a lot in this book, because he's super awkward and doesn't do anything right, yet he somehow manages to make it work and come out on top. He wasn't particularly clever, just lucky and quick on his feet. The suspense lies in whether or not he's going to get caught in his lies and deceptions. I won't spoil it, but there are sequels, so you can make of that what you will about the ending.
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