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.