The Silence of the Lambs

Hannibal Lecter #02

Hardcover, 338 pages

English language

Published May 19, 1988 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
978-0-312-02282-2
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OCLC Number:
933473562

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Thomas Harris will seize you with an emotion more profound than terror.

Of his previous novel, Stephen King wrote, "The book simply comes at you and comes at you, finally leaving you shaken and sober and afraid on a deeper level than simple 'thrills' alone furnish." Harris' new book is his most powerful and provocative, a novel with an impact unlike any other.

The time is now. A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname - Buffalo Bill - is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital …

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Subjects

  • Government investigators -- Fiction
  • Serial murderers -- Fiction
  • Serial murders -- Fiction