Thomas Harris Livres

Il s'appelle Hannibal Lecter. Il est psychiatre. Emprisonné à vie pour une série de meurtres sanglants, il est la plus grande autorité du pays en matière de démence criminelle. Pour comprendre les motivations secrètes d'un psychopathe qui terrifie l'Amérique, la police a besoin de ses " intuitions ". Mais Lecter n'accepte de communiquer qu'avec Clarence, une jeune inspectrice tout juste sortie de l'université. Si elle veut bien lui parler d'elle-même, de son enfance, de ses peurs intimes, peut-être l'aidera-t-il à trouver le tueur... Ou le tueur à la trouver...

En se passant calmement chez lui le film de son dernier meurtre - un vrai carnage ! - Dragon rouge se promit de faire mieux la prochaine fois. Une série de meurtres terrifiants de sauvagerie secoue les Etats-Unis. Tous suivent le même rituel d'horreur, le même scénario, tous sont signés d'un mystérieux Dragon rouge. Un homme est sur la piste. Il s'appelle Will Graham et a déjà montré par le passé une curieuse aptitude à se mettre dans la peau des psychopathes, à adopter leur point de vue, à deviner leurs pulsions les plus secrètes. La traque commence. Pour Graham, c'est le début d'une descente aux enfers dans le psychisme d'un inconnu, avec lequel il a décidément trop d'affinités. Rendu mondialement célèbre par son roman " Le silence des agneaux ", Thomas Harris et un journaliste spécialisé dans les affaires criminelles. Considéré dans les pays anglo-saxons comme le grand classique du roman de terreur, " Dragon rouge " marque la première apparition de Jack Crawford et d'Hannibal le cannibale.

Pourquoi un petit garçon comme les autres devient-il un monstre ? Après le mythique Silence des Agneaux, Thomas Harris révèle dans son nouveau roman le secret es origines d'Hannibal Lecter, le criminel le plus fascinant du thriller moderne, incarnation absolue du Mal.

R150193085. HANNIBAL. 2000. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 493 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine

"Red Dragon", "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Hannibal", the three international bestsellers that provided literature with one of its most memorable characters, now available in one volume.

FBI trainee Clarice Starling walks down the state asylum's deepest keep, through the moans and whispers of the criminally insane. She is here to meet the monster in the final cell. He knows she is coming. She finds Dr Lecter reading the Italian Vogue. He looks up, looks into her.

Robert Hilliard is chosen for a top secret assignment code named 10-ANNEX. He is sent on two missions to South Vietnam. On the first his flight crash lands in Vietnam. On the second he falls out the cargo door while kicking cargo. He parachutes to capture, by the Viet Minh. During his rescue and recovery he comes to grips with watching his father assassinated by the Japanese in Sumatra in 1942. FAIR AND JUST Hilliard leaves the service and joins a private security firm, founded by his leader at 10-ANNEX. He arrives as Industrial Enterprises is getting involved in a highly classified investigation for the US Attorney General. Hilliard is assigned as head investigator. An informant reports that a fraternity of lawyer politicians, some highly placed in government, are having violent criminals, who fall through the court system, assassinated. One by one the conspirators are neutralized.

When the game begins in New Orleans this Super Bowl Sunday . . . 80,000 people had better get ready to die. The Super Bowl--where thousands have gathered for an all-American tradition. Suddenly it's the most terrifying place on earth . . . Michael Lander is the most dangerous man in America. He pilots a television blimp over packed football stadiums every weekend. He is fascinated with explosives. And he happens to be very, very crazy. That's why a beautiful PLO operative has seduced him. That's why--on Super Bowl Sunday--the world will witness the bloody assassination of the U. S. president and the worst mass murder in history. Unless someone discovers what Michael Lander plans . . . and can kill him first.

From the creator of Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs comes a story of evil, greed and the consequences of dark obsession. Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before. Monsters lurk in the crevices between male desire and female survival. No other writer in the last century has conjured those monsters with more terrifying brilliance than Thomas Harris. Cari Mora, his sixth novel, is the long-awaited return of an American master.