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Hannibal
Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffed cries from behind a wall.In one of the most eagerly anticipated literary events of the decade, Thomas Harris takes us once again into the mind of a killer, crafting a chilling portrait of insidiously evolving evil - a tour de force of psychological suspense.
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Silence of the Lambs
With his last book, Red Dragon, Thomas Harris took the popular novel into new dimensions of suspense and terror. `The book simply comes at you and comes at you,’ wrote Stephen King, `finally leaving you shaken and sober and afraid on a deeper level than simple ‘thrills’ alone furnish.’ In The Silence of the Lambs Harris has surpassed even that extraordinary achievement and created a novel that will be talked about for years to come. A killer is attacking women across the United States. His methods are horrifying, his motives unknown; he has a purpose, but no one can fathom it. No one except Dr Hannibal Lecter, brilliant psychiatrist and homicidal genius, now confined in strict isolation in a hospital for the criminally insane. Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is assigned to interview Lecter, to match her wits against his in a race against time to save another young woman from the grotesque fate that has befallen the previous victims. In the process she is drawn along a path of sheer terror, a descent ever deeper into her own memories and nightmares, towards a discovery of incomparable horror. A masterpiece of suspense and a terrifying study of pure evil, The Silence of the Lambs is living a nightmare - but you won’t want it to end. `With this stunning sequel to Red Dragon, Harris seals his reputation as a thriller-master . . . A tour de force of suspense, dark and polished as onyx . . . One of the most gripping reads of the year.’ Kirkus Reviews `Thrillingly effective... Harris understands the crafting of literary terror as very few writers do.’ Publishers Weekly `Thrillers don’t come any better than this. The Silence of the Lambs is razor-sharp entertainment, beautifully constructed and brilliantly written. It takes us to places in the mind where few writers have the talent or sheer nerve to venture. I confess it, I’m addicted.’ Clive Barker `It’s marvellous, the best book I’ve read for a very long time. Thank heavens for a novel with a real plot at last, subtle, horrific and splendid. It is infinitely superior to any novel published this year.’ Roald Dahl `Evil cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter is brought in to advise Clarice Starling on the movements of a killer on the loose. Can his genius help trap the killer that knows that beauty is only skin-deep? Utterly gripping’ Independent `A virtual textbook on the craft of suspense. A masterwork of sheer momentum that rockets seamlessly towards its climax ...Harris is quite simply the best suspense novelist working today’ Washington Post
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Red Dragon
Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures starring Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter Will Graham has a fearful gift - a talent for the pursuit of human monsters. He has caught two mass murderers in his F.B.I. career. Now he must hunt again. A ritual murderer has struck twice, killing entire families in two south-eastern cities. Graham must find him before the moon is full again or another family will die. Graham’s keen empathy permits him - sometimes forces him - to see the crimes from some haunting points of view. This ability and his forensic skills make him the prime threat to the murderer. The killer, Francis Dolarhyde, is a terrible accident of nature, shaped by his early life into a monster. He’s trying to work things out, though. So far his efforts have cost ten lives. He knows Will Graham is coming. He intends to do something about that. In a chilling race against time, Graham searches desperately after Dolarhyde, always conscious that he and the killer are, at some fundamental level, alike. And in one terrifying respect he is right. Like him, the murderer is a ruthless hunter, and he has already begun his search for Will Graham. `A superb study of character, seen and understood and created in depth . . . Enthralling, frightening, totally professional. It is quite simply the best of its kind that I have read in twenty years.’ Ted Willis 'A snapshot from hell' Rolling Stone `The best popular novel published since The Godfather.’ Stephen King `The most thrilling novel I read this year.’ Mario Puzo `An engine designed for one purpose - to make the pulses pound, the heart palpitate, the fear glands secrete.’ New York Times Book Review 'Completely gripping' Time Out 'Something out of the ordinary for strong nerves and stomachs, an intricately crafted chiller' Observer ‘A canny yet uncontrived mixture of deduction, suspense, action and horror – far better written than most thrillers, with spine-chills all the way’ Kirkus Reviews ‘So traumatically frightening that once you’ve read it, you’ll never again go to sleep without turning on every light in the house’ Literary Guild ‘Readers should prepare to buckle themselves in for a long night’s read because from the first pages of dialogue, Harris grabs hold… a sure-fire bestseller’ Publishers Weekly ‘A magnificent, terrifying and totally believable read’ John Gardner | |||||
| About The Author A native of Mississippi, 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, Black Sunday was published in 1975, followed by Red Dragon in 1981 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1988. | Bibliography 
Arrow Pbk Oct 02
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Hannibal
by Thomas Harris
