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clarice is now a fbi agent and she is assigned to a drug bust that goes really wrong and she takes the fall for it. the fugative hannibal lector writes her a letter
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Clarice continues her search for lector by tracking down his only surviving victim and by followin up a lead he gives her at the old asylum
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The focus of the book gos to italy where a man named pazzi is going to try and find lector for mason vegner. lector is found to be the head curator of a museum under the name dr. fell and kills a gypsy man for trying to pick his pocket
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pazzi continues to try and gt dr fells fingerprints and the reader gets a idea about what mason has in store for hannibal lector on sardinia
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hannibal kills pazzia and one of the kidnappers and flees italy. mason vergner trys to come up with a new plan for captureing him and clarice becomes involved again
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krendler and mason sceme on how to get lecter and realize tey have to get to clarice wo is curently tracking hannibal who has come back to the us. barney and margot become friends and margots motives become clearer
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krendler starts to destroy clarices carrier in hope that lector will make contact with her
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lector does come to clarice but is captured by the sardinians/mason. clarice follows tem to the farm and saves lector and tey bot escape together margot kills mason and frames lector at his request. hannibal and clarice flee and become lovers and at one point eat krendlers brain while hes still alive