Hannibal Lecter – serie

_________________________HANNIBAL LECTER HAS BEEN ON THE RUN FOR SEVEN YEARS.And seven years after he helped FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling bring down Buffalo Bill, her career is collapsing after a disastrous drug bust. Meanwhile, seven years after violently escaping from custody, Hannibal Lecter is hunted by Mason Verger, a psychopathic former client obsessed with feeding him to wild boars.With the one-time partners at a low ebb, Hannibal is the one to reach out to Clarice, who has been plagued by dreams of his rasping voice.It has been seven years since they both came to realise they shared more than they expected.Seven years since their last meeting.Seven years to lay plans for the next one...__________________________________'Quite simply a compelling and brilliant thriller' Mirror'Addictive on every level' Express'Better than Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs' Stephen King

THE CULT CLASSIC PSYCHOLIGICAL CRIME THRILLER THAT CREATED DR HANNIBAL LECTER‘The only FBI-centred novel worth reading’ The Guardian‘Completely gripping’ Time Out‘Endlessly terrifying’ Los Angeles TimesA serial killer known as ‘Buffalo Bill’ is stalking women across America . . .He abducts them, starves them, and leaves their bodies in different states — each murder more disturbing than the last.To understand the Buffalo Bill's mindset, FBI rookie Clarice Starling is assigned to seek help from imprisoned psychopath and convicted serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter, whose insight into the depraved minds of killers is second to none. Locked away in a high-security asylum, Lecter agrees to help — but at a price.In exchange for inviting her into the darkest chambers of his mind, Hannibal begins to probe at hers, demanding knowledge of her childhood demons as the price of understanding Buffalo Bill's.Clarice knows exactly how dangerous Hannibal Lecter is — and what he can do with the secrets she reveals.But women are still disappearing, and time is running out. To save innocent lives, Clarice might have to risk her own . . . Praise for the Thomas Harris and the Hannibal Lecter series:‘The best popular novel published since The Godfather’ Stephen King‘Completely gripping’ Time Out‘An intricately crafted chiller’ Observer‘No one has illuminated this kind of darkness more thoroughly or effectively than Harris. It seems unlikely that anyone ever will.’ Washington Post‘A unique master still at the top of his strange and chilling form.’ Wall Street Journal‘Handles the suspense as finely as you would expect from one of the genre's foremost practitioners’ CrimeReads‘Will not disappoint fans of disturbing, taut thrillers’ BookPage‘Endlessly terrifying’ Los Angeles Times

THE ICONIC CULT CLASSIC - THE THRILLER SERIES THAT CREATED DR HANNIBAL LECTERThe chilling first book in the bestselling psychological crime thriller series behind the Oscar Award-winning film, The Silence of the Lambs.‘The best popular novel published since The Godfather’ Stephen KingWill Graham was a brilliant profiler of criminals for the FBI - until he suffered terrible injuries in the process of capturing Dr Hannibal 'the Cannibal' Lecter.Years later, a new serial killer is terrorising America. Dubbed the ‘Tooth Fairy’ by the press, he murders entire families under the full moon, leaving no witnesses behind.With no leads and time running out, the FBI turns to the one man who understands the minds of psychopaths better than anyone: Will Graham.To catch a monster, Graham must confront another - Hannibal Lecter.But Hannibal is playing his own twisted game from the asylum for the criminally insane. And Will isn't the only one getting advice from the cannibal…Praise for the Thomas Harris and the Hannibal Lecter series:‘The only FBI-centred novel worth reading’ The Guardian‘No one has illuminated this kind of darkness more thoroughly or effectively than Harris. It seems unlikely that anyone ever will.’ Washington Post‘A unique master still at the top of his strange and chilling form.’ Wall Street Journal‘Handles the suspense as finely as you would expect from one of the genre's foremost practitioners’ – CrimeReads‘Will not disappoint fans of disturbing, taut thrillers’ BookPage‘Endlessly terrifying’ Los Angeles Times

_________________________HANNIBAL LECTER WASN'T BORN A MONSTER.HE WAS MADE ONE.Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front of World War II, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He will not speak of what happened to him and his family. 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. There, Hannibal lives with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki, who helps him to heal - and flourish.But Hannibal's demons are not so easily defeated. Throughout his young life, they visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn - and in the fog of traumatic memory, he discovers that he has gifts far beyond what he imagined...