Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic - the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of an unimagin-able delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families, and calls himself... The Red Dragon.

THE ICONIC CULT CLASSIC - THE THRILLER SERIES THAT CREATED DR HANNIBAL LECTER

The chilling first book in the bestselling psychological crime thriller series behind the Oscar Award-winning film, The Silence of the Lambs.

'The best popular novel published since The Godfather' Stephen King

Will Graham was a brilliant profiler of criminals for the FBI - until he suffered terrible injuries in the process of capturing Dr Hannibal 'the Cannibal' Lecter.

Years later, a new serial killer is terrorising America. Dubbed the 'Tooth Fairy' by the press, he murders entire families under the full moon, leaving no witnesses behind.

With no leads and time running out, the FBI turns to the one man who understands the minds of psychopaths better than anyone: Will Graham.

To catch a monster, Graham must confront another - Hannibal Lecter.

But Hannibal is playing his own twisted game from the asylum for the criminally insane. And Will isn't the only one getting advice from the cannibal...

Praise for the Thomas Harris and the Hannibal Lecter series:

'The only FBI-centred novel worth reading' The Guardian

'No one has illuminated this kind of darkness more thoroughly or effectively than Harris. It seems unlikely that anyone ever will.' Washington Post

'A unique master still at the top of his strange and chilling form.' Wall Street Journal
'Handles the suspense as finely as you would expect from one of the genre's foremost practitioners' - CrimeReads

'Will not disappoint fans of disturbing, taut thrillers' BookPage

'Endlessly terrifying' Los Angeles Times