A Clarice Starling, joven y ambiciosa estudiante de la academia del FBI, le encomiendan que entreviste a Hannibal Lecter, brillante psiquiatra y despiadado asesino, para conseguir su colaboración en la resolución de un caso de asesinatos en serie. El asombroso conocimiento de Lecter del comportamiento humano y su poderosa personalidad cautivarán de inmediato a Clarice, quien, incapaz de dominarla, establecerá con él una ambigua, inquietante y peligrosa relación.
El «Dragón rojo» no se conforma con matar a sus víctimas. Las mutila horriblemente, destroza los espejos de las casas en que viven y practica extraños rituales son sus cuerpos sin vida. Ya ha exterminado a dos familias, muy pronto atacará de nuevo y la policía no tiene ninguna pista para encontrarlo. La única huella que deja es la de sus dientes.
Siete años han pasado desde que Clarice Starling, agente especial del FBI, se entrevistara con el doctor Hannibal Lecter en un hospital de máxima seguridad. Y siete años desde que Hannibal el Canníbal burlara la vigilancia y desapareciera dejando una sangrienta estela de víctimas. Sin embargo, cuando Clarice cae en desgracia en el FBI, el doctor Lecter sale a la luz para ponerse en contacto con ella. Así se reanuda la persecución de la codiciada presa, y Clarice, que no ha olvidado su encuentro con la brillante y perversa mente del doctor, es encargada del caso.
Una de las novelas mas esperadas de la decada, Hannibal nos introduce ene los meandros del pensamiento de este personaje hipnotico, ambiguo, capaz de las mas inimaginables vilezas y de los gestos mas sublimes, un ser que nos arrastra, aun a pesar nuestro, a los abismos del terror.
"Red Dragon", "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Hannibal", the three international bestsellers that provided literature with one of its most memorable characters, now available in one volume.
FBI trainee Clarice Starling walks down the state asylum's deepest keep, through the moans and whispers of the criminally insane. She is here to meet the monster in the final cell. He knows she is coming. She finds Dr Lecter reading the Italian Vogue. He looks up, looks into her.
Robert Hilliard is chosen for a top secret assignment code named 10-ANNEX. He is sent on two missions to South Vietnam. On the first his flight crash lands in Vietnam. On the second he falls out the cargo door while kicking cargo. He parachutes to capture, by the Viet Minh. During his rescue and recovery he comes to grips with watching his father assassinated by the Japanese in Sumatra in 1942. FAIR AND JUST Hilliard leaves the service and joins a private security firm, founded by his leader at 10-ANNEX. He arrives as Industrial Enterprises is getting involved in a highly classified investigation for the US Attorney General. Hilliard is assigned as head investigator. An informant reports that a fraternity of lawyer politicians, some highly placed in government, are having violent criminals, who fall through the court system, assassinated. One by one the conspirators are neutralized.
When the game begins in New Orleans this Super Bowl Sunday . . . 80,000 people had better get ready to die. The Super Bowl--where thousands have gathered for an all-American tradition. Suddenly it's the most terrifying place on earth . . . Michael Lander is the most dangerous man in America. He pilots a television blimp over packed football stadiums every weekend. He is fascinated with explosives. And he happens to be very, very crazy. That's why a beautiful PLO operative has seduced him. That's why--on Super Bowl Sunday--the world will witness the bloody assassination of the U. S. president and the worst mass murder in history. Unless someone discovers what Michael Lander plans . . . and can kill him first.
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.
