FBI agent Will Graham once risked his sanity to capture Hannibal Lecter, an ingenious killer like no other. Now, he's following the bloodstained pattern of the Tooth Fairy, a madman who's already wiped out two families. To find him, Graham has to understand him, and in this 1981 prequel to The Silence of the Lambs, he has only one place left to go: the mind of Dr. Lecter.

"Irresistible…. A shattering thriller…. Readers should buckle themselves in for a long night's read."—Publishers Weekly