Red Dragon
1981 • 446 pages

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Feed your fears with the terrifying classic that introduced cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter.

FBI agent Will Graham once risked his sanity to capture Hannibal Lecter, an ingenious killer like no other. Now, he’s following the bloodstained pattern of the Tooth Fairy, a madman who’s already wiped out two families.

To find him, Graham has to understand him. To understand him, Graham has only one place left to go: the mind of Dr. Lecter.


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Finally!

I've meant to read this forever and it ties many things together from the movies and the show. I could hardly put it down

June 1, 2020

I don't know why I felt the need to read this one. Perhaps because I read The Silence of the Lambs... but I didn't even really like it that much. I'm just not one for this genre of books.

July 6, 2023

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