HANNAH MASSEY
Proud & canny, ignorant & intensely ambitious, Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may be only a working-class
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Seven years have passed since Dr 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, & the metallic rasp of his seldom-used voice still sounds in her dreams ...

` It is an axiom of behavioural science that vampires are territorial, while cannibals range widely. '

Hannibal killed

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` It is an axiom of behavioural science that vampires are territorial, while cannibals range widely. ' Hannibal killed nine people before he was caught. & five on his escape. Two of his victims survived
- one of them is in an asylum; but the other craves revenge. Mason Verger, a paraplegic confined to a respirator since his encounter with Dr Lecter, can move only the fingers of his crippled right hand across the soft blanket that covers his lifeless body. But Verger is very rich & very influential, & his reach extends into the echelons of power around the world. His need to find Lecter is insatiable. In Clarice Starling he has the perfect bait. As gripping & terrifying as any reader of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS would expect. Simply unputdownable.
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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. & sell... LOOK NO FURTHER FOR THE CHILLER OF THE YEAR' Peter Millar, The 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' Mail on Sunday ' It is a gut-churning, nail-biting, skin-crawling, often lyrical triumph
- addictive on every level... The plot is a helluva plot... The denouement is as exciting as the rest... IF THERE'S A BETTER BOOK THIS YEAR, with truth, fantasy & a touch of erudition combined in prose which really does leap off the page, I'LL EAT MY HAT' Francis Fyfield, Express. ' No panting fan... could have hope for more... HANNIBAL IS A GREAT POPULAR NOVEL & A PLAUSIBLE CANDIDATE FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE' Guardian
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HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS
IN ALL OF LITERATURE.

AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL
IS REVEALED.







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HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS
IN ALL OF LITERATURE.

AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL
IS REVEALED.







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In the First Punic War, the Roman legions defeated & humiliated Carthage, their only serious rival for power in the Mediterranean. Now a brilliant young Carthaginian general, called Hannibal, is out for revenge. Caught up in the maelstrom are two young boys, Hanno, the son of a distinguished soldier & confidant of Hannibal, & Quintus, son of a Roman equestrian & landowner. A disastrous adventure will see Hanno sold into slavery & bought by Quintus's father. Although an unexpected friendship springs up between the two boys
- & with Quintus's sister, Aurelia
- the fortunes of the two warring empires once again separates them. They find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict & an alliance forged through slavery will be played out to its stunning conclusion in battle.

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