Publishers Weekly, June 14th, 1999
Thomas Harris Delacorte, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 0-385-29929-X
Dr. Hannibal Lecter has swallowed the most succulent morsel of all: the genius of the man who imagined him. Like other great fictive creatures--Holmes, Dracula, Bond--Lecter has ascended from private character to public icon: America's favorite man-eater Hannibal the Cannibal, the ultimate fiend. This is not necessarily bad, for it has forced Harris, after publishing three novels in 13 years--Black Sunday; Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs--to spend an astonishing 11 years gnawing on the question that trumped Conan Doyle, Fleming,...
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