A brief history of Lecter’s orphaned childhood is included, giving insight to his scarred psyche. Lecter also murders one of Pazzi’s underlings before fleeing to America to pursue Agent Starling. However, after snooping around, Pazzi is disemboweled by Lecter and strung up in a grisly reference to the historical lynching of the Pazzi conspirators. Verger puts out a bounty for Hannibal’s capture, drawing the interest of Starling’s nemesis, Italian detective Rinaldo Pazzi.
He is aided by Paul Krendler, a corrupt Justice Department official. Verger plans to use Agent Starling as an unwitting pawn to lure Lecter into his deathtrap. Verger, a torturous pedophile, was left badly disfigured by Lecter many years before as an act of vengeance, he plans to feed Lecter to wild boars from his butcher empire.
Mason Verger, Lecter’s wealthy former patient and sixth victim, hatches a revenge plot. Matthews asks Starling if she ever fears Lecter visiting her unannounced, to which she replies no, because “he said he wouldn’t.” Starling becomes acquainted with Barney Matthews, a former employee at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Out of desperation, the FBI orders Starling to track down and apprehend Lecter in Italy. In addition to offering his condolences, Lecter asks Starling to provide him with more information about her personal life. Hannibal Lecter, who has been living in Florence, Italy heavily disguised. Disgraced, Starling receives a letter of condolence from Dr. However, Starling’s career begins to unravel following a botched drug raid, during which she fatally shoots a meth dealer who was holding an infant. Seven years have passed since FBI Agent Clarice Starling solved the Buffalo Bill case. Narrated in the third person perspective, the story begins in Washington, D.C. In 2013, NBC adapted the novel into a three-season television series created by Bryan Fuller and starring Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter. In 2001, Hannibal was adapted into a major motion picture directed by Sir Ridley Scott and starring Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter and Julianne Moore as Clarice Starling. The novel has been called “the exquisite satisfaction of a truly great melodrama” by The Guardian and “relentless – endlessly terrifying” by The Los Angeles Times The Denver Post asserts it will “scare your socks off.” Famed horror scribe Stephen King considers Hannibal one of the two scariest novels ever written, alongside The Exorcist. When Mason Verger, a vengeful victim and sadistic psychopath, targets Lecter, he must thwart Verger’s plot to use FBI Agent Clarice Starling as bait to lure Lecter into his trap. The story continues Lecter’s time on the run in Florence, Italy. Book 3 in the Hannibal Lecter series, American author Thomas Harris’s mystery crime thriller and horror novel, Hannibal (1999), is set seven years after Lecter escaped a maximum security mental institution at the end of Silence of the Lambs.
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