Red Dragon
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Remainder mark
Before the world knew the name Hannibal Lecter, there was Red Dragon — Thomas Harris's masterwork of psychological terror that introduced one of fiction's most chilling villains and the brilliant, tormented investigator who dared to enter his mind. FBI profiler Will Graham, haunted by the trauma of his last case, is pulled back into the darkness to track a savage serial killer known as the Tooth Fairy, whose ritualistic murders are growing in both frequency and ferocity. To catch a monster, Graham must think like one — and that means paying a visit to the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic genius whose insights come at a terrifying psychological price. Harris constructs his narrative with surgical precision, weaving together the perspectives of hunter, hunted, and the monster himself in a way that implicates the reader in its own mounting dread. Red Dragon stands as a landmark in crime fiction, credited with pioneering the modern psychological thriller and establishing the forensic procedural as a serious literary form. Harris's prose is cold, clinical, and utterly gripping — a scalpel rather than a sledgehammer — leaving the reader to question where the line between empathy and obsession truly lies.
Author: Thomas Harris
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, The Bodley Head
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Remainder mark
Before the world knew the name Hannibal Lecter, there was Red Dragon — Thomas Harris's masterwork of psychological terror that introduced one of fiction's most chilling villains and the brilliant, tormented investigator who dared to enter his mind. FBI profiler Will Graham, haunted by the trauma of his last case, is pulled back into the darkness to track a savage serial killer known as the Tooth Fairy, whose ritualistic murders are growing in both frequency and ferocity. To catch a monster, Graham must think like one — and that means paying a visit to the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic genius whose insights come at a terrifying psychological price. Harris constructs his narrative with surgical precision, weaving together the perspectives of hunter, hunted, and the monster himself in a way that implicates the reader in its own mounting dread. Red Dragon stands as a landmark in crime fiction, credited with pioneering the modern psychological thriller and establishing the forensic procedural as a serious literary form. Harris's prose is cold, clinical, and utterly gripping — a scalpel rather than a sledgehammer — leaving the reader to question where the line between empathy and obsession truly lies.