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The boars are unleashed by Lecter they feed on the henchmen that Starling had already shot dead or incapacitated but ignore Lecter when they smell no fear on him. When Starling catches up to Lecter, she is able to cut him free before succumbing to tranquilizer darts shot by one of Verger's men. Verger's men capture Lecter, and Starling pursues them. Margot, who is infertile, tells him that she works for her brother because she needs Mason's sperm to have a child with her partner, Judy Ingram, and inherit the Verger family fortune. Her father disinherited her after learning of her homosexuality. The two were orphaned during World War II, and a group of deserters killed and ate Mischa, something that haunts Lecter.īarney briefly works for Verger, meeting Verger's sister and bodyguard Margot, a lesbian bodybuilder whom Verger molested and raped as a child. The novel briefly touches upon Lecter's childhood, specifically the death of his younger sister, Mischa. After killing one of Verger's men, Lecter escapes to the United States, where he begins pursuing Starling.

However, Lecter disembowels and hangs Pazzi in reference to the lynchings of the Pazzi conspirators. Rinaldo Pazzi, a disgraced Italian detective, pursues Lecter in the interests of collecting Verger's bounty on him. He is aided by corrupt Justice Department agent Paul Krendler, Starling's nemesis. Meanwhile, Mason Verger, a wealthy, sadistic pedophile whom Lecter disfigured during a therapy session years before, plans to get revenge by feeding Lecter to wild boars, using Starling as bait. When Barney asks Starling if she ever feared Lecter visiting her, she replied that she did not, as 'he said he wouldn't'. She meets with Barney, a former orderly of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Desperate to catch Lecter, the FBI tasks Starling with apprehending him. Fugitive serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who has been living in Florence, Italy under an assumed name, sends her a letter of condolence and requests more information about her personal life.

During a botched drug raid, Starling kills a meth dealer who was holding a baby. Seven years after the Buffalo Bill case, FBI agent Clarice Starling witnesses her career crumble around her. Elements of the novel were incorporated into the second season of the NBC television series Hannibal, while the show's third season adapted the plot of the novel. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2001, directed by Ridley Scott. The novel takes place seven years after the events of The Silence of the Lambs and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter's victims. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. It is the third in his series featuring Dr.

Hannibal is a psychological horror novel by American author Thomas Harris, published in 1999.

The hannibal lecter omnibus thomas harris