Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter #1)
Will Graham stands in a
silent, empty house communing with a killer. An FBI instructor with a
gift for hunting madmen, Graham knows what his murderer looks like, how
he thinks, and what he did to his victims after they died. Now Graham
must try to catch him. But to do it, he must feel the heat of a killer's
brain, draw on the macabre advice of a dangerous mental patient, Dr.
Hannibal Lecter, and follow a trail of microscopic clues to the place
where another family has already been chosen to die--and where an
innocent woman has found the Dragon first.
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter #2)
There's a killer on the
loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee
investigator who's trying to save her own hide. The only man that can
help is locked in an asylum. But he's willing to put a brave face on -
if it will help him escape.
Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter #3)
Years after his escape,
posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo,
Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial
killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice
is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene, she
survives an FBI shootout gone wrong, and her nemesis, Paul Krendler,
makes her the fall guy. Clarice is suspended, so, unfortunately, the
first cop who stumbles on Hannibal is an Italian named Pazzi, who takes
after his ancestors, greedy betrayers depicted in Dante's Inferno. Pazzi
is on the take from a character as scary as Hannibal: Mason Verger.
When Verger was a young man busted for raping children, his vast wealth
saved him from jail. All he needed was psychotherapy--with Dr. Lecter.
Thanks to the treatment, Verger is now on a respirator, paralyzed except
for one crablike hand, watching his enormous, brutal moray eel swim
figure eights and devour fish. His obsession is to feed Lecter to some
other brutal pets.
Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter #4)
HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS
IN ALL OF LITERATURE.
AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL
IS REVEALED.
Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.
He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.
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.
Lady Murasaki helps
Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest
person ever admitted to medical school in France.
But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn.
He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.