Thomas Harris – författare

»Ett mästerverk.« The Washington Post

»En magnifik thriller.« New York Times

Som en del i sökandet efter en seriemördare med smeknamnet »Buffalo Bill« får FBI-aspiranten Clarice Starling ett uppdrag. Hon måste besöka en man som sitter inspärrad på en högsäkerhetsfacilitet för psykiskt sjuka våldsbrottslingar, och intervjua honom. Mannen, Hannibal Lecter, är en före detta psykiater med ovanliga preferenser och med ett passionerat intresse för det mänskliga psykets mörkare delar. Hans förståelse för mördaren och för Clarice själv bildar kärnan i Thomas Harris roman. När lammen tystnar - en oförglömlig klassiker och boken bakom en av filmhistoriens mest kända thrillers. I översättning av Sture Lundquist.

THOMAS HARRIS inledde sin karriär med att recensera kriminalromaner samtidigt som han arbetade som reporter i New York. Han debuterade 1975 och har sedan dess blivit en bästsäljande författare världen över, främst genom böckerna om den raffinerade psykopaten Hannibal Lecter. När lammen tystnar [The Silence of the Lambs] är den andra och mest kända boken i serien, inte minst tack vare den hyllade filmen från 1991, med Jodie Foster som Clarice Starling och Anthony Hopkins som Hannibal Lecter.

»En psykologisk thriller som är så skickligt sammanvävd, så gripande, att man knappt kan ta sig igenom meningarna snabbt nog.« Associated Press

»Knivskarp underhållning, skickligt konstruerad och fantastiskt välskriven. Thrillers blir inte bättre än så här.« Clive Barker

An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Lecter's insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill.Smart and attractive, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter. His cryptic clues—about Buffalo Bill and about her—launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling.

The Classic Bestseller that has Changed the Lives of Millions

"Extraordinary. Harris has helped millions find the freedom to change, liberate their adult effectiveness, and achieve joyful intimacy with others." —Los Angeles Times

Transactional analysis delineates three ego-states (Parent, Adult and Child) as the basis for the content and quality of interpersonal communication. “Happy childhood” notwithstanding, says Harris, most of us are living out the not OK feelings of a defenseless child wholly dependent on others (parents) for stroking and caring. At some stage early in our lives we adopt a “position” about ourselves and others that determines how we feel about everything we do. And for a huge portion of the population, that position is "I’m Not OK-You’re OK." This negative "life position," shared by successful and unsuccessful people alike, contaminates our rational adult capabilities, leaving us vulnerable to inappropriate, emotional reactions of our child and uncritically learned behavior programmed into our parent. By exploring the structure of our personalities and understanding old decisions, Harris believes we can find the freedom to change our lives.

HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERSIN ALL OF LITERATURE.AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVILIS 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.