"Harris reportedly never wanted to write a sequel, but when mega-producer Dino De Laurentiis, who owned the film rights to the Lecter character but didn't work on The Silence of the Lambs, wanted a sequel, Harris provided one. The end result, which ended up being the second biggest selling novel of 1999 (beaten only by John Grisham), is genuinely bananas."
"In it, we see Lecter living as a free man under a fake name in Florence, while Clarice Starling is tasked with apprehending him after a major career blender. Watching over all of this is Mason Verger, a millionaire pedophile with a sadistic streak who literally drinks the tears of children and is now a quadriplegic with a sliced-up face thanks to Hannibal's meddling and a bottle of poppers."
The Silence of the Lambs film reinvented the serial murderer narrative with a gothic edge, a pioneering heroine, and Hannibal Lecter. Thomas Harris wrote a sequel after Dino De Laurentiis pushed for another film adaptation; the sequel novel became the second biggest-selling book of 1999. The plot follows Lecter living under a false identity in Florence and Clarice Starling hunting him after a career setback. Mason Verger, a sadistic, now-quadriplegic millionaire, seeks revenge and conspires with corrupt official Paul Krendler. Margot Verger, an abused sister and lesbian bodybuilder, pursues inheritance through a violent scheme. The novel contains grotesque elements including brainwashing, cannibalistic mutilation, murderous pigs, and an electric eel used as a weapon.
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