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...Originally, Hannibal was a supporting character, too. The first two books have more or less the same plot. In Red Dragon, FBI profiler Will Graham, the man who caught and imprisoned Lecter, accepts his intercession and interference as a possible aid in finding a serial killer nicknamed the Tooth Fairy (because he leaves bite marks on his corpses). In The Silence of the Lambs, FBI agent Clarice Starling is tracking Buffalo Bill, and again Lecter played the brilliant, deranged, unreliable consigliere...
...polar opposites coexisted: elegance and heartlessness, fastidiousness and cruelty, insanity and insight. He's a great people-reader, exercising a hypnotic power over those he meets, and with an acute instinct for the emotional jugular. This is on display the first time Hannibal appears in the books - when Will Graham visits him in a prison cell in Red Dragon - "Graham felt that Lecter was looking through to the back of his skull. His attention felt like a fly walking around in there...
...their prime. He is also the standard movie detective, sleuthing clues as to the whereabouts of his sister's killers. Indeed, he has assumed here the role of the real heroes of Red Dragon and Silence - he's the detective and the villains are the original cannibals. Like Will Graham or Clarice Starling, he's tracking them down, slipping into their crafty minds and trying not to be killed by them...
...Hannibal Lecter, last of his line," Harris repeatedly calls him in the book. But this book is unlikely to be the last in its line. For one thing, it ends nearly 20 years before Will Graham captured Hannibal (in 1975, according to the 3,500-word biography on Wikipedia). According to the FBI dossier on Hannibal in Red Dragon, he committed nine murders - that we know of - and who knows how many drive-by nibblings...
Amanda suffers from acute culture shock before Graham (a smoldering and sensitive Jude Law) takes her frolicking in the English countryside. Iris does water aerobics with an old Hollywood screenwriter, Arthur Abbott (veteran actor Eli Wallach, “Mystic River”), whose creaky wisdom leads her to Miles (Jack Black, playing against type), a cultured score-composer who pens her a melody using “only the good notes...