Will Graham has retired from the FBI, scarred in body and mind by the case that nearly killed him: capturing the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter. But when a killer the press calls "the Tooth Fairy" begins slaughtering entire families under the light of the full moon, Graham's former boss Jack Crawford pulls him back into the field. Graham has a rare, unbearable gift — he can think his way inside a murderer's mind — and it is the only thing that might stop the next massacre.
To catch the killer, Graham must do the unthinkable: return to Lecter's cell and enlist the help of the very monster who once left him for dead. As the investigation deepens, the reader is drawn into the fractured world of Francis Dolarhyde, a damaged man in the grip of a terrifying transformation he calls his Becoming.
Thomas Harris's Red Dragon, the first novel to feature Hannibal Lecter, is a landmark of the modern crime thriller — a meticulous, chilling study of obsession, empathy, and the thin membrane between hunter and hunted. Taut and psychologically dense, it redefined the serial-killer novel and set the template for a genre.
