Hannibal
(Hannibal Lecter)
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4.4 • 54 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
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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...
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'Quite simply a compelling and brilliant thriller' Mirror
'Addictive on every level' Express
'Better than Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs' Stephen King
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This narrative roils along a herky-jerky vector but remains always mesmerizing, as Harris's prose and insights, particularly his reveries about Hannibal, boast power and an overripe beauty. If at times the suspense slackens and the story slips into silliness, it becomes clear that this is a post-suspense novel, as much sardonic philosophical jest as grand-guignol thriller. Hannibal, we learn--"we" because Harris seduces reader complicity with third-person-plural narration--is not as we presumed. The monster's aim is not chaos, but order. Through his devotion to manners and the connoisseur's life, in fact to form itself, he hopes--consciously--to reverse entropy and thus the flow of time, to allow a dead sister to live again. He is not Dionysius but Apollo, and it is the barbarians who oppose him who are to be despised. Hannibal may be mad, but in this brilliant, bizarre, absurd novel--as in the public eye--he is also hero; and so, at novel's end, in blackest humor, Harris bestows upon him a hero's rewards, outrageously, mockingly.
Customer Reviews
Hannibal:
Well written but a touch confusing at the end….
Amazing
I only wish I was educated enough to follow the dedication Thomas Harris had to complete this book, along with all the professionals in the field.
I loved the film but the book, although far more in depth, is much better.
My favourite book
I started reading Harris’ collection about 10 years ago and I cannot express how much I love this series. I’ve read this book so many times and I’ve had to buy it on iTunes as my copy is now falling apart!