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Book, 1988
Current format, Book, 1988, 1st ed, All copies in use.
Book, 1988
Current format, Book, 1988, 1st ed, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats
A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname - Buffalo Bill - is stalking particular women. He has a purpose but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.B.I. Academy is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Lecter's insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill. Smart and attractive, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter. His cryptic clues - about Buffalo Bill and about her - launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling.
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