

"Razor-sharp entertainment, beautifully constructed and brilliantly written. 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. Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. 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. A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname-Buffalo Bill-is stalking particular women. An ingenious, masterfully written novel, 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. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic, now with a note by author Thomas Harris revealing his inspiration for Hannibal Lecter. About the Book "The 25th nniversary edition of the classic novel"-Cover.
