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by Thomas Harris (Author) "Behavioral Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building at Quantico, half-buried in the earth..." (more)
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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.

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In this thrillingly effective follow-up to Harris's masterful 1981 suspense novel Red Dragon, the heroine is new, but the villain isn't: Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the evil genius who played a small but crucial role in the earlier novel, returns, to mesmerizing effect. When a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill (he kidnaps, slays and skins young women) begins a crosscountry rampage, FBI trainee Clarice Starling tries to interview Lecter, a psychiatrist whose brilliant insights into the criminally insane are matched only by his bloodlusthe's currently imprisoned for nine murders, and would like nothing more than the chance to kill again. Lecter, a vicious gamesman, will offer clues to the murderer's pattern only in exchange for information about Clarice, analyzing her with horrible accuracy from the barest details. When Bill strikes again, the agent begins to realize that Lecter may know much more, and races against time and two twisted minds. Harris understands the crafting of literary terror as very few writers do; readers who put themselves in his good, coldblooded hands will lose sleep, and demand a sequel. 200,000 first printing; $200,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I can't keep quiet about it, Sep 21 2006
By ManCow (Land of wheat) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Silence of the Lambs (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm normally one for something a tad more 'fun'-----you know the ones I'm talking about---Sedaris with his 'Me Talk Pretty' or McCrae and his 'Katzenjammer' :both first-rate by the way----but I opted for this as I had seen the movie and wanted to 'read' the story. Glad I did. While the movie was fantastic, the book was, believe it or not, even better. Really blew me away. I'd recommend this even is you have seen the movie.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Time running out, Jun 26 2004
By Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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There are only a handful of books that I've read from cover to cover in just one sitting. Thomas Harris' SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was one of them. And for good reasons: his story was completely absorbing and he wrote it well.

You all know the story, especially because of the hit movie. But if you haven't read the book, I urge you to do so. While the film successfully conveyed the psychodrama between Starling and Hannibal, what I thought was missing was the sense of urgency, the suspense that a life was hanging in the balance. The book is a rush because its suspense is so compelling from cover to cover.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Slightly better than the movie, Jun 20 2004
By Sarah Sammis "Avid BookCrosser" (Hayward, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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It's certainly a better book than Black Sunday or Red Dragon but it's still so ridiculously improbable. I know Lecter is supposed to be the glue that holds the book together but honestly he bugs me. He's an unneccessary distraction from an otherwise interesting thriller/mystery.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping and Terrifying!!
I read this book prior to watching the movie version and it prepared me for a gruesome ride.

While the writing is basic at best, the horror and mystery is spellbinding. Read more

Published on May 19 2004 by V. Marshall

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Thriller
I read this before the film
Deliberatly

And I can tell you - this book is simply phenomenal
Twisting, turning and unpredictablity is what this is about
Yet there are... Read more

Published on May 18 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Silence of the Lambs Book Report Book Review
In "Silence of the Lambs", Thomas Harris continues the series of HANNIBAL LECTER, a supersmart villain with a serial killer that kills and skins women that are about his size... Read more
Published on May 9 2004 by deelightful13

4.0 out of 5 stars A complex book that doesn't get cluttered.
Clarice Starling is the star of this story. She's an up and coming FBI agent who gives chase to a serial killer named "Buffalo Bill. Read more
Published on May 2 2004 by Max Drapeau

5.0 out of 5 stars Shocking and Gruesome Crime Novel
The Silence of the Lambs has to be the most gruesome book I've ever read. The good news is that the characters are really well developed and the plot is thrillingly twisted. Read more
Published on Mar 15 2004 by Veronica

5.0 out of 5 stars gripping
Having seen the movie adaptation of "The Silence of the Lambs" several times, it seemed at times that I could see the action on the pages of the book rather than just reading... Read more
Published on Mar 4 2004 by Joe Sherry

5.0 out of 5 stars Verry good thriller
I read first The Red Dragon and I like it very much, then I read Hannibal and I didn't like it so I didn't want to read this book, but it happens, someone give it to me and I read... Read more
Published on Feb 23 2004 by Jorge Frid

5.0 out of 5 stars Spellbinding
Whether you saw the movie or not, buy the book and read it. Even if you know what's going to happen, Harris' way of telling the story is magnificent and spellbinding. Read more
Published on Feb 1 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars Sensational but not evocative
I had heard so much about this book for sucha long time that I finally decided to give it a shot...

The book was riveting, the ghastly ideas were original and scary, but the... Read more

Published on Sep 11 2003 by deepbits

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the movie
This book was amazing. Hannibal Lecter has to be one of the most enduring literary and film villians of all time. Read more
Published on Sep 1 2003 by Nicholas M. Lamarca

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