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Alan Sklar
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Thomas Harris
A quiet summer night...a neat suburban house...and another innocent, happy family is shattered - the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can stop. Nobody lives to tell of the unimaginable carnage. Only the blood-stained walls bear witness.
All hope rests on Special Agent Will Graham, who must peer inside the killer's tortured soul to understand his rage, to anticipate and prevent his next vicious crime. Desperate for help, Graham finds himself locked in a deadly alliance with the brilliant Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the infamous mass murderer who Graham put in prison years ago.
As the imprisoned Lecter tightens the reins of revenge, Graham's feverish pursuit of the Red Dragon draws him inside the warped mind of a psychopath, into an unforgettable world of demonic ritual and violence, beyond the limits of human terror.
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Fast forward twenty years, and multiple books about Hannibal Lecter have come and gone. Getting back into non-comic prose, I remembered enjoying Silence and looked up what else was in the series. With almost zero notion of what was before me, I set into Red Dragon.
What we have here is a crime and detective story, featuring agents of the FBI investigating the recent murders of two entire families in different parts of the country. The chief protagonist has the claim to fame of catching Hannibal Lecter. No one knows that was all but a fluke. The man is good at his job, but catching Lecter had been an accident of circumstance.
The first half of the story is almost entirely investigation and we only see the murderer through the mind of the FBI agents and their discussions with Lecter. Toward the middle, we slowly and then increasingly begin spending time with the murderer himself.
Hats off to Harris for painting such a sympathetic and pitiful portrait of the murderer. His backstory and his attempt at the first stages of romance pull at the heartstrings. I couldn’t help but feel sorry for him and his inner struggle with his insanity.
The story ends with a final thrill I hadn’t expected, and I am very much looking forward to revisiting The Silence of the Lambs.
Excellent treatment of the sympathetic complexity of a murderer
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Wonderful Book
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Great story. Odd performance.
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Great listen but sorta tame
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Good start
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Very similar to the movie
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Each time I noticed something that I missed. Usually just minor details. I love that about books. Red Dragon is my second favorite in this series. Silence of the Lambs being the first.
Red Dragon
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Lived Up to the Hype
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Something New
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A contemporary classic
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