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Hannibal Rising

(Hannibal Lecter)

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Hannibal Rising

By: Thomas Harris
Narrated by: Thomas Harris
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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.

©2006 Thomas Harris; (P)2006 Random House Genre Fiction Ghosts Horror Medical Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Fiction Haunted

Critic Reviews

Praise for Hannibal:
Quite simply a compelling and brilliant thriller.
The thrills, horror, sly erudition and sheer exquisite writing make this so much more than another serial killer novel... [It] reaches almost sublime levels of gothic grandeur at its conclusion. If only all bestsellers were so rewarding.
A masterpiece... Chillingly brilliant
Quite simply this is the best-written thriller to dominate the market in years... A literary evocation of the diabolical to compare with Goethe and Gogol. Honestly.
A gut-churning, nail-biting, skin-crawling, often lyrical triumph - addictive on every level
All stars
Most relevant
I love this series. Narration was good. Story was amazingly well written. Enjoyed learning the origins of the infamous cannibal. Rooting for him doesn't seem so bad in this tale.

E-Lecter-ic

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Silence of alarms and red dragon up by far my favourite books of all time and while this one was an interesting story, I couldn’t help but feel that it was much slower less intriguing than the others. Part of Hannibal’s mystique is the not knowing why he is the way he is and while this backstory is an interesting path, it felt unnecessary. Very well written of course and the performance was excellent.

Still great, but the weakest of the Hannibal series

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I really enjoyed the production on this audio book. hearing it in the author's own voice was a treat. his performance was excellent - the many varied accents and characters were delivered really well. Possibly my favourite in the Hannibal series. bravo!

wonderful delivery from Harris

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the second half of the book felt like a ferret down a rabbit Warren. chaotic. not a bad story overall, but I don't think it compares to the other three novels in the series

like a rabbit Warren

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This was a lot better than I expected - I have the book but couldn't get into it, so I put off listening to this for ages, but once I started I didn't want to "put it down". If you love the other books in the series I recommend this one as it gives an interesting background, but read it last, in the order it was written - it's not so interesting if you don't already understand where he ends up... I think, anyway.

Pleasantly surprised...

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