At the age of twenty-three-years-old Thomas Harris, author of Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs was sent to Nuevo Leon State Prison in Monterrey, Mexico. Little did Harris know, he'd be meeting the individual who would later inspire him to write the complex character of Hannibal Lecter.
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