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You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he's been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world.
But intruders have entered Dr. Lecter's world, piercing his... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Hannibal Lecter: The infamous serial killer and cannibal who was once a renowned psychologist. The story picks up where The Silence of the Lambs left, and tells more what happens after Lecter has escaped.
- Clarice Starling: The FBI agent who is assigned to go after and capture Lecter, because her superiors believe that she knows best what he would do.
- Mason Verger: The heir of a meat-packing business and sadistic pedophile, Mason seeks out revenge against Lecter for what he did to him as his former psychologist.
- Margot Verger: The body-building sister of Mason, she remains loyal to him even after his mistreatment of her as a child.
- Rinaldo Pazzi: A descendent of the Pazzi family. He's the detective who investigates Lecter when he's in Italy.
- Paul Krendler: A deputy assistant Inspector General in the U.S. Deptartment of Justice, Krendler tries to ruin Starling's career after she led a botched drug raid.
- Barney Matthews: The former head orderly of the maximum security area in the mental hospital where Lecter was held captive. Out of a job, he now works for Mason Verger. He also helps Starling with where Lecter might be.
- Dr. Fell: Dr. Lecter's alias.
- Jack Crawford: Section Chief of Behavioral Science at the FBI, Clarice Starling's boss.
- Tommaso: Sardinian working for Mason Verger, specialist in kidnapping and torture.
- Mischa: Died sister of Dr. Lecter
- Romula: Gypsy used by Pazzi to try and verify that Hannibal Lecter was Dr. Fell.
- Carlo: Brother of Matteo and Sardinian leader of the group charged with kidnapping Lecter by Mason Verger.
- John Brigham: Friend of Clarice Starling, FBI agent.
- Piero: Add a description of this character.
- Mogli: Former law enforcement officer in Illinois, employed by Mason Verger to supply security at his farm, part of the plot to kill Dr. Lecter.
- Sammie
- Noonan
- Franklin
- Dr. Doemling: Psychologist hired by Verger to discredit Clarice Starling and provide insight into her relationship with Hannibal Lecter.
- Cordell: Nurse employed by Mason Verger.
- Judy: Female partner of Margot Verger.
- Clint Pearsall: Jack Crawford and Clarice Starling's boss at the FBI.
- Ardelia Mapp: Starling's best friend, FBI agent, shared a duplex with Starling.
- Donnie Barber: Rogue deer hunter targeted by Dr. Lecter for his crassness.
- Burke
- Gnocco: Gypsy friend of Romula, used by Pazzi in his plot to prove Dr. Fell's true identity.
- Evelda Drumgo: Drug dealer and money launderer for the Crip's street gang, killed in a government raid.
- Mrs. Rosencranz: Friend of Hannibal Lecter before he was unmasked as a serial killer.
- A. Benning: FBI specialist in DNA testing.
- Jame Gumb: Buffalo Bill serial killer, former acquaintance of Dr. Lecter.
- Shirley
- Mama
Quotes edit
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“I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife”
Hannibal Lecter
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
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I think it’s easy to mistake understanding for empathy—we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It’s hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.
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NOW THAT ceaseless exposure has calloused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us. What still slaps the clammy flab of our submissive consciousness hard enough to get our attention?
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We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum.
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named—the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
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Dr. Lecter has no interest in hypothesis. He doesn’t believe in syllogism, or synthesis, or any absolute.” “What does he believe in?” “Chaos. And you don’t even have to believe in it. It’s self-evident.”
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What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do not raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.
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The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.
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“The first three hours of night were almost spent The time that every star shines down on us When Love appeared to me so suddenly That I still shudder at the memory. Joyous Love seemed to me, the while he held My heart within his hands, and in his arms My lady lay asleep wrapped in a veil. He woke her then and trembling and obedient She ate that burning heart out of his hand; Weeping I saw him then depart from me.
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Whether you believe in God or not, if you are a warrior Arlington is a sacred place, and the tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Florence
- Italy
- Washington
- Quantico
- Baltimore State Hospital
- Sardinia
- Ardelia
- Palazzo Vecchio
- New York
- Questura
- Santa Croce
- Maryland
- Europe
- Memphis
- Arlington
- Muskrat Farm
- Paris
- United States
- America
- Rome
- Via De
- Tuscany
- Palazzo Capponi
- Illinois
- Brazil
- Virginia
- Farmacia
- Montenegro
- D.c.
- Savonarola
- Cagliari
- Tennessee
- Buenos Aires
First Sentence edit
CLARICE STARLING'S MUSTANG boomed up the entrance ramp at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on Massachusetts Avenue, a headquarters rented from the Reverend Sun Myung Moon in the interest of economy.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 4 in Hannibal Lecter. (standard series)
Preceded by The Silence of the Lambs, and followed by Hannibal Rising.
This is book 2 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels in 1999. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Testament, and followed by Assassins.
This book is in Significant Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror). (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Thomas Harris (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 8 June 1999
ISBN: 0-385-33487-7
Page Count: 484
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 8 June 1999
ISBN: 0-385-33487-7
Page Count: 484
Awards edit
- Bram Stoker Award (Finalist, 1999: Novel)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3558.A6558 H36 2005
- Dewey: 813.54
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Add the suggested reading level for this book.Extreme violence
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Movie Connections edit
- Hannibal (2001) (IMDb): Directed by Ridley Scott; Starring Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta
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