BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN'The No.1
Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES'I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing
is' GILLIAN FLYNN'No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously
satisfying' VOGUE'Ramón had done it. Obviously! He thought about Ramón his Catholic soul
trapped in his passion for Lelia. He'd find Ramón and see that he paid with his life for what
he had done.'In A Game for the Living threads of sexual jealousy and guilt are shot through
with all Patricia Highsmith's uncanny talent for the unexpected.Ramón mends furniture. Theodore
paints. A devout Catholic Ramón lives in Mexico City not far from where he was born into
poverty. Theodore a rich German transplanted to a country where money buys some comfort but no
peace believes in nothing at all.You'd think the two had nothing in common. Except of course
that both had slept with Lelia. The two were good friends so neither minded sharing her
affections. They did mind however when Lelia was found raped murdered and horribly
mutilated. The two friends suspects both twist in a limbo of tension and doubt each seeking
his own form of solace and truth.A thrilling psychologically complex novel rich with setting
A Game for the Living is Highsmith at her best.