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...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...
...gone so far as to fiddle with aspects of his subject's biography. In Red Dragon the young Hannibal is said to have tortured animals - the first indication of a sociopathic personality. Yet in Rising he displays kindness and closeness to a flock of swans and his favorite horse, Cesar, who affectionately recalls Hannibal when he returns to the family estate 10 years after he left...
...solo commando, escaping from more confrontations with mean, tough, armed men than Schwarzenegger and Van Damme in 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...
...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...
Leonard said that in addition to the prayer ceremony, the Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) were urging people to wear red or crimson t-shirts that day as a sign of solidarity...