Hannibal Rising (häftad, eng)

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HANNIBAL LECTER WASN''T BORN A MONSTER.
HE WAS MADE ONE.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front of World War II, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He will not speak of what happened to him and his familyHe seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.

Hannibal''s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France. There, Hannibal lives with his uncle and his uncle''s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki, who helps him to heal - and flourish.

But Hannibal''s demons are not so easily defeatedThroughout his young life, they visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn - and in the fog of traumatic memory, he discovers that he has gifts far beyond what he imagined...