Editing Hannibal Lecter (section)

====''Hannibal''====
In the third novel, 1999's ''[[Hannibal (Harris novel)|Hannibal]]'', Lecter lives in a [[palazzo]] in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], and works as a [[museum]] [[curator]] under the alias "Dr. Fell". One of Lecter's two surviving victims, [[Mason Verger]]&mdash;a wealthy, [[Sadistic personality disorder|sadistic]] [[Pedophilia|pedophile]] whom Lecter had brutalized during a court-ordered therapy session, leaving him a horrifically disfigured [[quadriplegic]]&mdash;offers a huge reward for anyone who apprehends Lecter, whom he intends to feed to [[wild boar]]s specially bred for the purpose.

Verger enlists the help of Rinaldo Pazzi, a disgraced Italian police inspector, and Paul Krendler, a corrupt [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] official and Starling's boss. Lecter kills Pazzi and returns to the United States to escape Verger's [[Sardinia]]n henchmen, only to be captured. Starling follows them, intent on apprehending Lecter personally, and is injured in a gunfight with Verger's henchmen. Lecter escapes, thanks to Starling's help, and persuades Verger's younger sister Margot&mdash;his former patient, whom Verger had [[Child molestation|molested]] and [[rape]]d years earlier&mdash;to kill her brother, promising to take the blame.

Lecter rescues the wounded Starling and takes her to his rented house on the Chesapeake shore to treat her, subjecting her to a regimen of [[psychoactive drug]]s in the course of therapy sessions to help her heal from her childhood trauma and her pent-up anger at the injustices of the world. He considers whether his long-dead younger sister Mischa may somehow be able to live again through Starling. One day, he invites her to a formal dinner where the guest and first course is Krendler, whose brain they consume together. On this night, Starling refuses to let her personality be subsumed, telling Lecter that Mischa's memory can live within him. She then offers him her breast, and they become lovers.

Three years later, former orderly Barney, who had treated Lecter with respect while he was incarcerated in Baltimore, sees Lecter and Starling entering the [[Teatro Colón]] opera house in [[Buenos Aires]]. Fearing for his life, Barney leaves Buenos Aires immediately, never to return. The reader then learns that Lecter and Starling are living together in an "exquisite" [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux Arts]] mansion, where they employ servants and engage in activities such as learning new languages and dancing together and building their own respective [[Method of loci|memory palaces]], and is told that "Sex is a splendid structure they add to every day", that the psychoactive drugs "have had no part in their lives for a long time", and that Lecter is "satisfied" with the fact that Mischa cannot return.