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Thomas Harris

A native of Mississippi, Thomas Harris began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico, and was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in New York City.

He is most well known for his Hannibal Lector crime thriller series.

Lived: 1940 -

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Red Dragon

From the author of “Silence of the Lambs” and “Black Sunday”, this is the book that introduces the series killer, Hannibal Lecter – a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families.

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The Silence of the Lambs

Made into a succesful film starring Jodie Foster, and Anthony Hopkins as the homicidal genius and cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, this is the story of a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator who’s trying to save her own hide.

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Hannibal

The sequel to “Silence of the Lambs” marks the return of Dr Hannibal Lecter. One of Hannibal’s victims, the influential and rich Mason Verger – a paraplegic confined to a respirator, thanks to Hannibal – is bent on revenge and Clarice Starling provides the perfect bait.

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Hannibal Rising

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(…)

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Black Sunday

All the FBI and Mossad know is that someone is planning the biggest terrorist atrocity of all time. And in New Orleans, 84,000 people, including the President, are converging on the football stadium for the annual Super Bowl. Each one is unaware that the balloon hovering above them is a bomb.

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