It's the event of the year. Eighty thousand people have come together for Super Bowl Sunday in New Orleans.Among them, a young man named Michael Lander.

He hasn't come to watch the game. He's come to play one. It'll begin with the assassination of the U.S.President. R'II end with the largest mass murder in his-tory. Eighty thousand victims---and the whole world will be watching. Unless someone stops him.

But first they'll have to find him.

A tale of international terrorism and psychological intrigue with frighteningly authentic characters and an all-too-plausible plot that hurtles along at a breakneck pace, Black Sunday is a mesmerizing debut--the novel that heralded Thomas Harris as a powerful and unforgettable new voice in fiction.

Here, the man who introduced the world to Hannibal Lecter takes you to Superbowl Sunday, when 1,200 pounds of plastic explosives will drop from the sky,turning 80,000 screaming fans and one sitting US president to ashes--and turning millions of TV viewers across the country into horrified witnesses.