Hannibal Rising
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⚔️ Every monster has an origin.
Before he became the cultured killer known to the world, Hannibal Lecter was a boy scarred by war and silence—found in the snow of the Eastern Front, chained and mute, carrying horrors no child should endure.
Rescued from a Soviet orphanage by his uncle, Hannibal begins a new life in France under the care of his uncle’s enigmatic wife, Lady Murasaki. With her guidance, he flourishes—brilliant, disciplined, even admitted as the youngest student in France’s medical school.
But the past is never buried. Haunted by the demons of his childhood, Hannibal turns his genius toward vengeance. In the pursuit of retribution, he uncovers not only the depths of his trauma, but also the dark gifts that will define him forever.
Hannibal Rising reveals the making of literature’s most haunting villain—the boy who became death’s prodigy.