And yet there is darkness in the life: imaginative rather than actual, perhaps, but darkness all the same.
Martin Amis, an admirer of the early books, is one of several notable writers who believes that Harris is in the process of destroying his literary reputation; that, as he put it, he has "gone gay on" Lecter.
To translate: he likes him too much, as does evidently Harris's agent, if only because the curious popularity of the not-so-good doctor proves that crime pays very handsomely indeed, if you write well enough about it.
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