What a disappointment! I, along with so many others, anxiously waited for this book (pre-ordered on Amazon.com, of course). What a waste! I am no stranger to thrillers, but the gory detail was so intense it was difficult to slog through. The worst part was the ending; the Clarice Starling we respected from the first book never would have done what she was written into at the end of this book. Not only an absolute waste of the reader's time and money, but an insult to the quality of "Silence of the Lambs"