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FBP2: V1.0. 'Hannibal' by Thomas Harris.

Powerful, Creepy, Scary and often just plain sick. The climax is all of these

brought together at the expense of someone who really deserves it (The manner

of his down fall is probably impossible - but whose going to check!) In a

particularly twisted way its also a love story!

In honour of the UK release of the film. Suggest you read the

Scanning/Proofing notes at the end before reading it. From a UK paperback

version. Enjoy. AFB,

Hannibal by Thomas Harris

Seven years have passed since Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody, seven

years since FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum

security Hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is still at large, but

Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr Lecter, and the metallic

rasp of his seldom-used voice still sounds in her dreams...

'Quite simply a compelling and brilliant thriller' Mirror.

'It has been worth the wait...Look no further for the chiller of the year.'

The Times.

'A gut-churning, nail-biting, skin-crawling triumph - addictive on every

level' Express.

'Readers who have been waiting for Hannibal only want to know if it is as good

as Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs...It is a pleasure to reply in the

negative. No. Not as good. This one is better' Stephen King.

Praise for Hannibal

"Is this the best novel of the year? . . . a masterpiece . . . chillingly

brilliant . . . Hannibal grips like a vice, from its brilliantly realized

opening to its horrifying and delightfully whimsical conclusion . . . [the

book] grabs you by the ear, the eye, the throat and drags the reader

helplessly around a switchback-cum-maze of narrative ingenuity . . . I sat

skewered to my seat until the last page . . . Every line of Hannibal is

suffused with the sense of a titanic struggle with evil in its blackest form .

. . It contains writing of which our best writers would be proud . . . In

Hannibal, Harris has surpassed himself. It has wit, erudition, golden dialogue

and it does that thing that most novels can't do: it describes almost constant

action. I'm prepared to bet that Observer readers won't pick up a more

compelling novel this year." Robert McCrum, Observer

"Well if this novel isn't the number one bestseller by this time next week,

I'll eat my tongue . . . [it] is quite simply a compelling and brilliant

thriller . . . it seems all too real and quite terrifying. Thomas Harris is a

brilliantly clever author . . . Sentence for sentence there is nobody to match

him . . . It is an incredible achievement . . . absorbing" Mirror

"The readers who have been waiting for Hannibal only want to know if it is as

good as Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs . . . It is a pleasure to

reply in the negative. No, not as good. This one is better. It is, in fact,

one of the two most frightening popular novels of our time, the other being

The Exorcist . . . Hannibal is really not a sequel at all, but rather the

third and most satisfying part of one very long and scary ride through the

haunted palace of abnormal psychiatry. . . I hope with all my heart that

[Harris] will write again, and sooner rather than later - novels that bravely

and cleverly erase the line between popular fiction and literature are very

much to be prized." Stephen King, New York Times Book Review

"No panting fan waiting these 11 years for the three Thomas Harrises to become

four could have hoped for more. Tense, dark, allusive and alert to the state

of the nation, Hannibal is a great popular novel and a plausible candidate for

the Pulitzer Prize. The last two decades of 19th century popular fiction were

dominated by Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. A century on, suspense

literature has achieved their equals in Thomas Harris and Hannibal Lecter."

Guardian

"[Hannibal] ought to have been a flop - The Silence of the Lambs should have

been an impossible act to follow. But the opposite is the case: it is a gut-

churning, nail-biting, skin-crawling, often lyrical triumph-addictive on every

level . . . If there's a better book this year, with truth, fantasy and a

touch of erudition combined in prose which really does leap off the page, I'll

eat my hat." Francis Fyfield, Express

"Astonishing . . . Hannibal grips from the very beginning like a crazed dog on

Mason Verger's face. And while it's the devilish detail which makes this book

a delight to read, the revelations concerning Lecter's own psychology, and

that of Clarice Starling, make it imperative that you get to the end. The

tension between my desire to savor this story and find out what happens was

deliciously awful . . . Harris is that most unusual of things, a genre writer

who supersedes and transfigures the genre he chose to write in. I raise my

glass of Chateau d'Yquem to him." Will Self, Independent on Sunday

"There is no book more unputdownable this summer . . . The thrills, horror,

sly erudition and sheer exquisite writing make this so much more than another

serial killer novel . . . [It] reaches almost sublime levels of gothic

grandeur at its conclusion. If only all bestsellers were so rewarding"

Guardian "An absolutely holiday must. Quite simply this is the best-written

thriller to dominate the market in years . . . in the wit, erudition and sheer

style of the eponymous Dr Lecter, we have not only a world-class villain but a

literary evocation of the diabolical to compare with Goethe and Gogol.

Honestly" The Times

"So does Hannibal live up to the expectations raised by a wait of ten years?

Yes. Or rather, no, it exceeds them. Hannibal is a momentous achievement . . .

the reader is held in a ferocious grip. He lies at the author's mercy . . .

Hannibal works faultlessly as a thriller . . . no sooner have you finished it

than you want to go through it again . . . Hannibal is the work of a real

writer, following his own path, despite the pressures of fame. He's not doing

it for money and there won't be another Lecter novel. We're lucky to have

this." Evening Standard

"On paper Lecter is wittier, more complex and more frightening than any actor

could convey on screen" Daily Telegraph

"Impeccably researched, marvelously written and peppered with Harris's dark

humor . . . blackly, bizarrely funny, horrific, emotionally wrenching. . .

confirms Harris's status as a master of the genre" Irish Times

"Beautifully written . . . there is not a single ugly or dead sentence here .

. . Lecter is a superbly seductive creation" Sunday Times

"Insanely readable . . . No thriller writer is better attuned than Thomas

Harris to the rhythms of suspense. No horror writer is more adept at making

the stomach churn . . . compelling . . . truly shocking . . . a brilliant

book" Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

"It has taken Harris the better part of a decade to produce this, only his

fourth novel. It has been worth the wait . . . Harris's writing bears the

hallmarks of honed perfection . . . This piece of literature is popular

fiction only in the sense that it will sell. And sell . . . Look no further

for the chiller of the year: Hannibal walks among us." Peter Millar, The Times

"Terrific . . . Hannibal confirms our worst fears and will spur many

nightmares this summer. It's that good. What can one say but: pig out"

Scotland on Sunday

"A master breaks his own mould. Edgar Allan Poe for today" Evening Standard

"Masterful . . . disturbing . . . a fine novel, deep and intriguing, worthy of

its bald, bold language and biblical allusion . . . Lecter's power as a

character of fiction is that he lives to haunt us, to exist in the reader's

imagination outside the novel, to stand beside the other monsters lingering in

the shadows: the Beast with his Beauty, Grendel, Bluebeard and Dracula." The

Times

"Gets off to a flying start, and barely relents for near on 500 pages. You

will be sleeping with the lights on" Harpers & Queen

"Harris is a superb writer, clean, economical and witty - as razor sharp in

plot and character as Hannibal's rib-tickling knife" Scotland on Sunday

"While Harris twists the plot with his usual ease, few will foresee the final

outcome which is exactly how a Harris novel should be . . . shows you how

psychological horror should be done" List

"This is superior craftsmanship, beautifully written and filled with

strikingly elegant prose shot through with a coal-black wit, every sentence

honed to perfection, making this novel a masterpiece of contemporary fiction"

Uncut

"Hannibal Lecter is back at his deadliest best. . . for sheer heart-stopping

suspense he's hard to beat in a deliriously sadistic dance with death which

will grip you to its eerie, unexpected climax" Big Issue

"The most significant sequel since Paradise Regained" Independent

"Reading Hannibal and trying to figure out why Harris is so much better than

other writers at this sort of thing is a bit like watching a magician . . .

Not even the most astute reader will be able to foresee where Harris is

leading, but few will be disappointed to get there. And where he takes us in

the end is all the more shocking for the calm tones in which it is related."

New York Post

"Deliciously frightening . . . interested in getting the hell scared out of

you? Buy this book on a Friday. Plan a weekend of easy-to-identify meals. Lock

all doors and windows. And by Monday, God and That Guy willing, you just might

be able to sleep without a night-light." Newsday

"486 fast-paced pages, in which every respite is but a prelude to further

furious action. . . a tale that is endlessly terrifying . . . Hannibal speaks

to the imagination, to the feelings, to the passions, to exalted senses and to

debased ones. Harris's voice will be heard for awhile." Los Angeles Times

"Diabolically clever plotting . . . Harris serves up a feast in Hannibal . . .

Harris writes like an angel with the devil's sense of humor . . . The hypnotic

blend of horror story and psychological thriller lifts crime fiction to

sublime . . . Hannibal is ghoulishly good fare." Boston Herald

"A work of art . . . You'll eat up Hannibal . . . There isn't a wasted word .

. . the last 100 pages are the best I've ever read in the thriller genre." USA

Today

"[A] devilish tale . . . eerily realistic and chillingly vivid from beginning

to end. As Harris sketches his hideous scenarios, he allows us to color them

in with our imaginations. But not overdoing it, he draws us in, practically

making us conspirators in his macabre fantasy." New York Post

"A truly scary book . . . As deep and disturbing a thriller as has ever been

written." People

"[A] page-turner . . . I have read every word of Hannibal, most of them only

twice, but some as many as five or six times." New York Magazine

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, The Silence of the Lambs in

1988 and Hannibal in 1999.

Also by Thomas Harris

BLACK SUNDAY

RED DRAGON

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Published in the United Kingdom in 2000 by Arrow Books l 3 S 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance

This novel is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the

author's imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is

entirely coincidental This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall

not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise

circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or

cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition

including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

First published in the United Kingdom in 1999 by William Heinemann Arrow Books

The Random House Group Limited 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2SA

Random (louse Australia (Pry) Limited 20 Alfred Street, Milsons Point, Sydney,

New South Wales 2061, Australia Random House New Zealand Limited 18 Poland

Road, Glenfield Auckland 10, New Zealand Random House (Pry) Limited Endulini,

5a Jubilee Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa The Random House Group Limited

Reg. No, 954009 www.randomhouse.co.uk A CIP catalogue record for this book is

available from the British Library.

Papers used by Random House are natural, recyclable products made from wood

grown in sustainable forests. The manufacturing processes conform to the

environmental regulations of the country of origin Typeset by Palimpsest Book

Production Limited, Polmont, Stirlingshire Printed and bound in Germany by

Elsnerdruck, Berlin ISBN 0 01) 929770 1 I WASHINGTON, D.C.

Hannibal by Thomas Harris

Washington D.C.

Chapter 1

You would think that such a day would tremble to begin . . .

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.

The strike force waited in three vehicles, a battered undercover van to lead

and two black SWAT vans behind it, manned and idling in the cavernous garage.

Starling hoisted the equipment bag out of her car and ran to the lead vehicle,

a dirty white panel van with MARCELL'S CRAB HOUSE signs stuck on the sides.

Through the open back doors of the van, four men watched Starling coming. She

was slender in her fatigues and moving fast under the weight of her equipment,

her hair shining in the ghastly fluorescent lights.

"Women. Always late," a D.C. police officer said.

BATF Special Agent John Brigham was in charge.

"She's not late - I didn't beep her until we got the squeal," Brigham said.

"She must have hauled ass from Quantico - Hey, Starling, pass me the bag."

She gave him a fast high five. "Hey, John."

Brigham spoke to the scruffy undercover officer at the wheel and the van was

rolling before the back doors closed, out into the pleasant fall afternoon.

Clarice Starling, a veteran of surveillance vans, ducked under the eyepiece of

the periscope and took a seat in the back as close as possible to the hundred-

fifty pound block of dry ice that served as air-conditioning when they had to

lurk with the engine turned off.

The old van had the monkey-house smell of fear and sweat that never scrubs

out. It had borne many labels in its time. The dirty and faded signs on the

doors were thirty minutes old. The bullet holes plugged with Bond-O were

older.

The back windows were one-way mirror, appropriately tarnished. Starling could

watch the big black SWAT vans following. She hoped they wouldn't spend hours

buttoned down in the vans.

The male officers looked her over whenever her face was turned to the window.

FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling, thirty-two, always looked her age and she

always made that age look good, even in fatigues.

Brigham retrieved his clipboard from the front passenger seat.

"How come you always catch this crap, Starling?" he said, smiling.

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