沉默的羔羊之揭开罪幕 (2006)

《少年汉尼拔》（英语：Hannibal Rising）是由美国作家汤玛斯·哈里斯撰写的长篇小说，于2006年首次出版。本书是汉尼拔·莱克特系列的第四集，但剧情时序上是最早的一部，讲述食人魔汉尼拔·莱克特的成长过程。小说出版不久即被改编成同名电影，于2007年上映，由哈里斯亲自执笔剧本，但电影口碑不佳。

剧情概要

故事讲述了莱克特少年时期的经历，详解了他为何会成为一个食人魔。在莱克特11岁的时候，因为战争，他和她的妹妹失去了双亲成为孤儿。不久后，他们的住处被一群逃兵侵占，而莱克特的妹妹被他们杀害吃掉。后来莱克特从逃兵手中逃脱，他在森林中被一名苏联坦克兵发现。他被送到了他家的旧城堡，但那里已经被改建成了苏联孤儿院，莱克特的心理因为妹妹的事情受到了无法挽回的创伤，他不再说话。后来他被他的叔叔罗伯特·莱克特收养，跟姑姑紫夫人一起住在法国，在姑姑的照顾下，他渐渐恢复了健康并再次开口说话。

在一次他与紫夫人一起逛菜市场的途中，一名屠夫侮辱了紫夫人，于是莱克特袭击了他。后来莱克特学医，他找到了曾经的那名屠夫，将他开肠破肚并斩首。尝到复仇的甜头后他开始一一找出当年杀死米莎的仇人，杀死并吃掉他们的脸颊，在此期间他还得知当年在他不知情的情况下，他也曾吃下过妹妹的肉。在复仇的过程中，他和紫夫人的关系彻底破裂，莱克特也自此失去了所有的人性。

Hannibal Rising is a psychological horror novel by American author Thomas Harris, published in 2006. It is the fourth and final novel in Harris's series and the first novel in chronological order of the novels centered around Dr. Hannibal Lecter, serving as a prequel to his three previous books. The novel was released with an initial printing of at least 1.5 million copies and met with a mixed critical response. Audiobook versions have also been released, with Harris reading the text. The novel was adapted, with a script by Harris himself, into a film of the same name in 2007. Producer Dino De Laurentiis implied around the time of the novel's release that he had coerced Harris into writing it under threat of losing control over the Hannibal Lecter character, accounting for the perceived diminished quality from Harris' previous books.

Plot

Opening in Lithuania during 1941, Hannibal Lecter is eight years old and living in a castle with his parents and sister, Mischa. With the castle located near the eastern front of World War II, the Lecter family escapes to their lodge to elude the advancing German troops. With the castle abandoned, it is soon raided by Germans and civilians aiding them, their hidden art collection being among the stolen loot. Three years later, an advancing Soviet tank stops at the Lecter family's lodge looking for water, only to be bombed by a German Stuka, the explosion killing all but the children. Surviving in the lodge, Hannibal and Mischa are captured when six deserters appear: Vladis Grutas, Zigmas Milko, Bronys Grentz, Enrikas Dortlich, Petras Kolnas and Kazys Porvik. Storming and looting the lodge, they lock the Lecters in the barn. Running low on supplies, the soldiers soon take Mischa; realizing they intend to cannibalize her, Hannibal tries to stop them, only to have his arm broken before he blacks out.

Hannibal is later spotted by a Soviet tank crew, wearing shackles and rendered mute. Returned to Lecter Castle, now a Soviet orphanage, Hannibal is found to be irreparably traumatized by the ordeal. Removed from the orphanage by his uncle Robert Lecter, Hannibal goes to live with him in France with his aunt, Lady Murasaki. Visiting a marketplace with his aunt, Lecter assaults butcher Paul Momund when he insults Murasaki. Count Lecter, learning of the slight against his wife, violently confronts the butcher and collapses and subsequently dies from a heart attack. Losing most of the Count's estate to death duties, Lecter and Murasaki move across France, and Lecter flourishes as a medical student, assisting by preparing cadavers for lessons.

Locating Momund the butcher, Lecter murders him for his actions, eviscerating and beheading him before eating his cheeks. Suspected by Inspector Popil, Lecter escapes suspicion when Murasaki falsifies evidence, suggesting Momund's death was political. Using sodium thiopental to recall the lodge, Lecter remembers Mischa's murder and her killer's faces, and that the lodge was shelled; the building burning and soldiers fleeing, Lecter was freed by Porvik, who was then crushed by falling debris. Working with Popil to recover his family's stolen art, Lecter attends a recovered art exhibition with Murasaki, and speaks with one of Grutas' men selling the art. Afraid he will uncover their identities, Grutas sends Dortlich to murder him.