<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed. </b> <p/> Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. <p/> He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. <p/> 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. <p/> Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France. <p/> But Hannibal's demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. <p/> He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death's prodigy.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"There are images of morbid beauty here.... Harris' handling of the wartime violence is also impressive, as swift and vicious as the blitzkrieg itself."--<i>Los Angeles Times</i><br>"Gripping detail.... [Harris] moves the story along at an impressively fast clip."--<i>Boston Globe</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Thomas Harris began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico, and was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in New York City. His first novel, <b>Black Sunday</b>, was published in 1975, followed by<b><i> </i>Red Dragon</b> in 1981, <b>The Silence of the Lambs</b> in 1988, and <b>Hannibal </b>in 1999.
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