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Silence of the
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Price: Our Price: $11.16 You Save:$2.79 (20%) Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Paperback
- 352 pages 10th anniv edition (October 1998)
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris, is even better than
the successful movie. Like his earlier Red Dragon, the book takes
us inside the world of professional criminal investigation. All the elements
of a well-executed thriller are working here--driving suspense, compelling
characters, inside information, publicity-hungry bureaucrats thwarting
the search, and the clock ticking relentlessly down toward the death of
another young woman. What enriches this well-told tale is the opportunity
to live inside the minds of both the crime fighters and the criminals as
each struggles in a prison of pain and seeks, sometimes violently, relief.
Clarice Starling, a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispatched by her boss, Section Chief Jack Crawford, the FBI's most successful tracker of serial killers, to see whether she can learn anything useful from Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter's a gifted psychopath whose nickname is "The Cannibal" because he likes to eat parts of his victims. Isolated by his crimes from all physical contact with the human race, he plays an enigmatic game of "Clue" with Starling, providing her with snippets of data that, if she is smart enough, will lead her to the criminal. Undaunted, she goes where the data takes her. As the tension mounts and the bureaucracy thwarts Starling at every turn, Crawford tells her, "Keep the information and freeze the feelings." Insulted, betrayed, and humiliated, Starling struggles to focus. If she can understand Lecter's final, ambiguous scrawl, she can find the killer. But can she figure it out in time? --Barbara Schlieper --This text refers to the mass market paperback edition of this title
Book Description
Listen to the silence...
An instant classic novel of chilling psychological suspense...a critically-acclaimed audio production of unforgettable intensity...From the tormenting words of the homicidal maniac Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the flesh-rending depravity of an elusive killer to the sheer courage of a young F.B.I. novice, who risks her life to track him down and stop the bloodshed, experience the ultimate terror of an audio masterpiece... --This text refers to the audio cassette edition.
Synopsis
On the loose is a psychotic killer; locked away is a psychopathic madman.
To catch one, the FBI needs the other . . . The electrifying national bestseller
is now the movie event of the year, starring Academy Award-winner Jodie
Foster as Clarice Starling, Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and
Scott Glenn as Special Agent Jack Crawford. Reissue. --This text refers
to the mass market paperback edition of this title
