Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody, seven years since FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane....

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow,...

A quiet summer night...a neat suburban house...and another happy family is shattered--the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can...