The Silence of the Lambs
Author: Thomas Harris
Pages: 421
Language: English
Published: 2009-06-15
ISBN: 9780099532927
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<p>THE LEGENDARY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER</p> <p>An FBI trainee<br> A psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes<br> And a serial killer getting ever closer to his latest victim...</p> <p>FBI rookie Clarice Starling turns to Dr. Hannibal Lecter, monster cannibal held in a hospital for the criminally insane, for insight into the deadly madman she must find. As Dr. Lecter invites her into the darkest chambers of his mind, he forces her to confront her own childhood demons as the price of understanding, an unspeakable tuition he exacts to teach her how the monster thinks. And time is running out...</p> <p>'Thrillers don't come any better than this ... 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' Clive Barker</p> <p>'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' <i>Washington Post</i></p> <p>'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 who knows that beauty is only skin-deep? Utterly gripping' <i>Independent</i></p>
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