ISBN: 044024286X 9780440242864

Category: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense

Page count: 384

<b>He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed. </b><br><br> Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. <br><br> He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.<br><br> Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki.<br><br> Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France.<br><br> But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn.<br><br> He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.