This is another Patricia Highsmith novel, this one from 1961. Reading about it, it seems like she’s writing a kind of psychological novel about prison life in the United States. We meet Philip Carter, a young engineer in prison for embezzlement and fraud (charges we understand are false — as he was a fall guy for a conman who died recently). He’s been in prison for a few weeks and in an attempt to appease his cell mate he delivers some contraband cigarettes when he’s […]