Silent Lamb

Author: Thomas Harris
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Publish Date: 1998-04-01
Features: A famous suspense horror novel! Young, petite, and willful FBI intern Clarice Starling; the evil genius, cannibalistic psychopath Lecter; the transvestite "Buffalo Bill" who stripped the skins of five women to make a milkmaid's vest, the three of them played a cat-and-mouse game until Bill, who lived on the tears of others, fell to Starling's gun, the lamb was quiet, but the devil Lecter escaped freely again.
Recently graduated from training and assigned to the FBI, the intern Clarice Starling accepted a difficult task: to find and capture a serial killer known as "Buffalo Bill." Many young women had died at his hands and parts of their skin had been stripped. To understand the killer's special psychology and locate the elusive perpetrator, Starling had to visit Dr. Lecter, a once-famous psychiatrist in a heavily guarded prison. Lecter was an intelligent, sharp-minded, and somewhat psychopathic middle-aged man with a terrifying habit of eating human flesh. He was calm, composed, highly knowledgeable, and astute. Starling's thinking skills were no match for the doctor. Lecter demanded that Starling share her personal experiences in exchange for his assistance. Impressed by the doctor's wisdom, Starling could not help but develop a strange mix of sympathy and hatred for him. Her sincerity and innocence moved the doctor. Through multiple encounters, he provided Starling with some clues intermittently. Under his guidance, Starling began to see results. Another woman was kidnapped this time, and this time it was the daughter of a senator who went missing. Lecter offered clues to another FBI agent in exchange for being transferred to a prison with views of natural scenery, but he was deceived. Angered, Lecter managed to secure a transfer out of prison and escaped the heavily guarded cage. Meanwhile, under Lecter's guidance, Starling was also getting closer to the killer. During a thrilling...