A GREAT BOOK BY THE GREATEST MASTER OF THE GENRE.

THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY OF THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE HANNIBAL LECTER.

A prequel to the cult classic The Silence of the Lambs. The celebrated film adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins.

The legendary Hannibal Lecter will have to engage in an intellectual battle with another serial killer – the Red Dragon. What sophisticated game has the doctor decided to play by helping the FBI?

'Red Dragon' is a novel created with one purpose: to make your heart beat faster and tremble with fear.' — The New York Times Book Review

'This novel has all the ingredients of a superbly written thriller: tension that builds from page to page, vividly drawn characters, a solid understanding of the FBI's workings, glory-hungry bureaucrats who obstruct the investigation, and the victim's gruesome death that inexorably approaches.' — Mass Market Paperback

'Every Thomas Harris novel is a polished perfection.' — The Times

'No one has ever illuminated the darkness in people's souls more thoroughly and objectively than Thomas Harris. And perhaps no one else ever will.' — The Washington Post

'For the last two decades of the 19th century, Conan Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes dominated the detective genre. A century later, Thomas Harris reached the same heights.' — The Guardian

'Reading a Harris novel is like slowly running your hand over cool silk.' — Stephen King

'An incredible talent.' — Ian Rankin