Red Dragon

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Thomas Harris: Red Dragon (1982, Random House Publishing Group)

368 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 1982 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-553-26485-2
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Red Dragon is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. The plot follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to find and apprehend an enigmatic serial-killer nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy". The novel introduced the character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial-killer, whom Graham reluctantly turns to for advice and with whom he has a dark past. The title refers to the figure from William Blake's painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun.

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Subjects

  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Fiction, thrillers, general
  • Fiction, horror
  • Graham, will (fictitious character), fiction
  • Lecter, hannibal (fictitious character), fiction