Red Dragon

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Mass market paperback, 480 pages

Published 1999 by Dell.

ISBN:
978-0-440-20615-6
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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

  • Novel
  • psychiatrists
  • cannibalism
  • serial killers
  • offender profiling
  • FBI
  • stalking
  • photographic processing
  • dissociative identity disorder
  • child abuse
  • sadistic personality disorder
  • tabloids
  • erectile dysfunction
  • homosexuality
  • Battle of Shiloh
  • American Civil War
  • Criminal profilers
  • Government investigators
  • Serial murder investigation
  • Detective and mystery fiction
  • Thrillers
  • Suspense fiction
  • Mystery fiction
  • Fiction
  • Mystery and detective stories
  • American Detective and mystery stories
  • American Horror tales
  • Detective and mystery stories, American
  • Horror tales, American
  • Serial murders
  • Thriller
  • United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • psychopaths
  • homicide investigation
  • Serial murderers
  • Fiction, horror
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Graham, will (fictitious character), fiction
  • Fiction, thrillers, general
  • Lecter, hannibal (fictitious character), fiction
  • Science-fiction
  • Fiction, romance, general
  • Hannibal Lecter (Fictitious character)
  • Serial murders, fiction
  • Fiction, thrillers