
His cryptic clues-about Buffalo Bill and about her-launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling. Smart and attractive, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter. Lecter's insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill.

Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Its all there and you just have to find it. Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs 84 likes Like You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs 86 likes Like Over this odd world, this half the world thats dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states.

Hannibal Lecter.Ī serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname-Buffalo Bill-is stalking particular women. An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr.
