Our friend returns in the knockout book, “Hannibal” !

After Hannibal escaped custody in The Silence of the Lambs, he fled to Florence, Italy assuming the identity of “Dr. Fell.”

Three people, Mason Verger, a millionaire craving to get his revenge on Dr. Lecter. (Mason is Hannibal’s only living victim.)

Rinaldo Pazzi, an jaded Italian police officer wanting to turn him in for the money, and our old friend Clarice Starling, looking for him to turn him in, or, maybe looking to see him again.



Lecter is seen, unlike The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, out of custody. He's finaly in the real world.

Hannibal being out in the open. The darkness, the humour, the history, and best of all…pure Harris style.

Sometimes it was a bit boring, and hard to follow when Harris goes into detail of Florence and the history of the Pazzis, etc. Some despised the ending, but I thought it was interesting, and fairly practical. People say it’s too Hollywood, but I would disagree.

Watch the movie Hannibal again. The book Hannibal was responsible for my addiction to the Lecter story, so after reading it I wanted to watch the movies, and read the other Lecter books. I think I'll read this again, and again, and again...

Excited, overwhelmed, warm, afriad, gloomy, intrigued, horrified, in glory, in envy.

Thomas Harris, author of "Red Dragon" "Black Sunday" "Hannibal" and "The Silence of the Lambs" has a certain writing style that some find offensive. He uses fragments. And I love it.



He is a genius for writing these books, which, by the way, are re-writes of Dante's Inferno.

It's disturbing, well told, and really connected me the Hannibal Lecter's character.

Hannibal, in some ways, as did the other in the series, makes light of psychopaths and the gloomy nature of human beings. Some can’t handle that.

You should read this masterpiece. It truly is a masterpiece. Harris created something so extraordinarily exceptional, and if you look close enough, you can see it too.

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