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 ' Quite simply a compelling & brilliant thriller' Mirror' Addictive on every level' Express' Better than Red Dragon & Silence of the Lambs' Stephen King