Hannibal

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 486, [2 (blank)]. Quarter-bound black cloth over crimson paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine and front; faux marbled endpapers. Deckled fore-edges. Jacket Art by Craig DeCamps.

Third in the series and a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1988). Seven years after Dr. Hannibal Lecter's escape from the authorities, one of his earlier victims uses Agent Starling as bait to draw in the doctor. Author David Foster Wallace, considered Hannibal Lecter a perversely but universally sympathetic creation and the novels among the few genuine achievements of mass-culture entertainment. Basis for the 2001 Ridley Scott film, starring Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman and Julianne Moore. "Better than Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs." –Stephen King