Red Dragon

Paperback, 320 pages

Published March 4, 1993 by Arrow Books Ltd.

ISBN:
978-0-09-911151-1
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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

  • Adventure / thriller
  • Crime & mystery
  • Fiction