Mass market paperback, 480 pages
Published 1999 by Dell.
4 stars
(3 reviews)
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.
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