Hannibal Rising: (Hannibal Lecter)

Thomas Harris

Hannibal Rising: (Hannibal Lecter)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cornerstone
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 July 2009
Pages
400
ISBN
9780099532958

Hannibal Rising: (Hannibal Lecter)

Thomas Harris

The story of Hannibal Lecter’s childhood and early years, from the mega-bestselling author of Hannibal and The Silence of the Lambs. Now fans of the new Sky Living TV series Hannibal can read the books that launched a legend.

_________________________ HANNIBAL LECTER WASN’T BORN A MONSTER. HE WAS MADE ONE.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front of World War II, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He will not speak of what happened to him and his family. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.

Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France. There, Hannibal lives with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki, who helps him to heal - and flourish.

But Hannibal’s demons are not so easily defeated. Throughout his young life, they visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn - and in the fog of traumatic memory, he discovers that he has gifts far beyond what he imagined…

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