![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Starling’s FBI career suffers in the wake of a botched raid, he sends her a letter of sympathy (or at least as sympathetic as a psychopath can get), which reignites the international manhunt for him. Following his bloody escape at the end of The Silence of the Lambs, Lecter is living under a false name in Florence. Much of Hannibal follows an expected plot arc. Disgust quickly turned to outrage.Īt the heart of that reaction was Starling’s fate. Imagine sitting down to what you think is a gourmet meal, only for your host to offer you a plate with your best friend’s head on it. The publisher ordered a first print run of more than a million copies the manuscript was kept under tight security, lest anyone leak the fate of one of literature’s most infamous villains.īut when the book finally hit stores, and those legions of The Silence of the Lambs fans finally had a chance to see how Harris played out the entwined fates of Lecter and Starling, the collective reaction wasn’t excitement or satiation-it was outright revulsion. Fans of its prequel, The Silence of the Lambs, had waited 11 years to find out what would happen next to FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling and cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. It’s hard to overstate the anticipation that greeted the impending release of the novel Hannibal in 1999. ![]()
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