The development of Hannibal Lecter into one of the great fictional villains sets this book apart from Red Dragon, where Lecter first appears. Of the other characters common to both novels, Jack Crawford, head of the Behavior Science division which tracks serial killers, has a considerably more important role in The Silence of the Lambs, both as Starling's mentor and as a husband dealing with the death of his wife.
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