托馬斯•哈裏斯，一個遊走於心理迷宮的懸疑作傢，那個令人毛骨悚然的、深不可測的漢尼拔醫生的創造者。雖然隻齣瞭五部小說，但已使他成為公認的懸疑小說宗師。其中《沉默的羔羊》係列尤為經典，它們將懸疑小說帶入瞭經典文學的殿堂，在懸疑文學史上是難以逾越的巔峰。 他的作品全部被好萊塢改編為電影。電影《沉默的羔羊》成為美國電影史上第三部包攬奧斯卡五項大奬的影片。

HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS

IN ALL OF LITERATURE.

AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL

IS REVEALED.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.

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, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki.

Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France.

But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn.

He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.

From the Hardcover edition.