Dolarhyde can now hear the Dragon talking to him. This feeling causes a split in his personality. However, instead of going after Graham, the killer goes after the reporter and kills him.ĭuring this time, Dolarhyde has met a blind woman, named Reba, and fallen in love. Graham, an FBI psychologist, and Crawford devise a group of lies that they feel will anger the killer and encourage him to come after Graham. Dolarhyde believes that by committing horrific crimes, he is becoming the Great Red Dragon.Īfter learning that the killer has Graham's address thanks to Hannibal Lecter, Graham agrees to work with a tabloid reporter he despises to lure the killer into a trap. Dolarhyde was abused by his grandmother, abandoned by his mother, and has now become obsessed by a painting of William Blake's The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun. Dolarhyde is a shy film processor who grew up with a devastating deformation, cleft palate. While Graham searches for the killer, the reader is introduced to Francis Dolarhyde. If only he could find a connection between the two families.

Graham finds a tree in which the killer sat and watched the children bury a family pet.

It is not until later, until after he visits the home of the second family, that Graham realizes the killer likes to watch the family for hours before he strikes. However, there is nothing solid to go on even after they find an eyewitness who saw a stranger watching the victim's home days before the murders. There are teeth impressions and broken mirrors that tell Graham a few things about the killer's personality. By submerging himself so completely, however, Graham places himself in a fragile mental state that has him constantly at war with himself and his ability to relate so easily to these types of killers. Graham jumps right into the case by visiting the home of the latest killers, submerging himself in the crimes to get a feel for the family, and for the man who murdered them.

Another psychopathic killer is on the loose, and Crawford knows only someone with Graham's unique gifts can help them catch him. However, his old colleague and friend, Jack Crawford has come to him to ask for his help. Graham lives in Florida with his new wife and step son, content to be out of the world of evil. Will Graham is a retired FBI forensics expert. Red Dragon is a crime novel full of suspense and forensic technology that still stands with the best of its genre more than twenty years after it was written. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris is the prequel to the novel that spawned the popular movie, Silence of the Lambs, and is the first appearance of the famed character, 'Hannibal Lecter.' The plot revolves around the man who captured Hannibal Lecter three years before in his pursuit for another insane serial killer.

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