What a bunch of hooey. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was a good book, but the second book, HANNIBAL, that made Lecter a hero and turned Clarice Starling evil, was simply disgusting and evil. Don’t bother with this trash.
Bantam Dell Publishing Group: Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
HANNIBAL RISING
Written by Thomas HarrisFiction - Suspense | Delacorte Press Hardcover
December 2006 | $27.95 | 978-0-385-33941-4 (0-385-33941-0)HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS
IN ALL OF LITERATURE.AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL
IS REVEALED.Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.
He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.
Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki.
Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France.
But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn.
He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.
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