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Red Dragon is a novel written by Thomas Harris featuring the brilliant psychiatrist and serial killer Hannibal Lecter. It was originally published in 1981, but found a new audience in the early 1990s after the success of its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs
. The title refers to a painting by William Blake, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun.

Red Dragon is, in both publishing chronology and story order, the first book in the Lecter trilogy. The story takes place before the events in The Silence of the Lambs, and after Lecter's original capture and incarceration. While Lecter plays a central role, Red Dragon focuses more on the characters of Will Graham and the tortured serial killer, Francis Dolarhyde.

The story has been filmed twice. The first film, released in 1986 under the title Manhunter
, was directed by Michael Mann and focused on FBI Special Agent Will Graham, played by William Petersen. Lecter was played by Brian Cox. The second film, which used the title Red Dragon, appeared in 2002. Directed by Brett Ratner and written by Ted Tally (who also wrote the screenplay for Silence of the Lambs), it starred Edward Norton as Graham and Anthony Hopkins as Lecter — a role he had, by then, played twice before in The Silence of the Lambs
and Hannibal. This film is set to be followed by Young Hannibal
.

Cast

Anthony Hopkins
- Hannibal Lecter
Edward Norton
- Will Graham
Ralph Fiennes
- Francis Dolarhyde
Emily Watson
- Reba McClane
Mary Louise Parker - Molly Graham
Harvey Keitel
- Jack Crawford
Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Freddy Lounds
Frankie Faison
- Barney

Synopsis

Will Graham, who captured Lecter, was nearly killed in the process. He is called out of retirement to help track down a serial killer known to law enforcement agencies and the press only as "The Tooth Fairy," who has murdered two families. Graham turns to Lecter for help, but discovers that Lecter is manipulating not only him but also the man he is hunting.

The relationship between Lecter and Graham parallels the relationship between Lecter and Clarice Starling in the later books, but has very different overtones. Lecter treats Starling as an unworthy student but Graham as a fellow professional (though not an equal). Lecter's acceptance of Graham does not stop at the being "professional" level, but extends further into the overlapping realm between Graham's and Lecter's psyches.

A complication in the investigation is Freddie Lounds, a tabloid reporter who once ran afoul of Graham during the Lecter case and is now dogging him to get the story on "The Tooth Fairy". "The Tooth Fairy" is Francis Dolarhyde. Dolarhyde, an avid reader of Lounds' paper, The National Tattler, is displeased with what Lounds writes about him, and brutally murders him.

Dolarhyde meets Reba McClane, a blind co-worker at Chromalux Film & Videotape Services, where Dolarhyde's work gives him access to the home movies which the company transfers to video cassette. Dolarhyde and McClane begin a romantic relationship. Dolarhyde's newfound love conflicts with his homicidal urges, which manifest themselves in his mind as a separate personality he calls "The Great Red Dragon," after the Blake painting. Posing as a researcher, Dolarhyde enters the Brooklyn Museum, beats a museum secretary unconscious, and eats the original Blake watercolour of The Red Dragon which is kept there, believing that if he consumes the Dragon, he can stop killing and pursue a normal relationship with McClane.

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