Beverly Katz, Jimmy Price, Brian Zeller, and Dr. Crawford goes to Graham's Sugarloaf Key residence and pleads for his assistance Graham reluctantly agrees. Two days after the Leeds murders, FBI agent Jack Crawford seeks out his protégé, Will Graham, a brilliant profiler who captured the serial killer Hannibal Lecter three years earlier, but retired after Lecter almost killed him. He first kills the Jacobi family in Birmingham, Alabama, then the Leeds family in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1978, a serial killer nicknamed ' The Tooth Fairy' stalks and murders seemingly random families during sequential full moons. Though Harris refers to one of these, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, he actually describes another, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun. The title refers to the figure from The Great Red Dragon Paintings by William Blake. Due to the success of the second and third films, Red Dragon was remade as a film directed by Brett Ratner in 2002, this time bearing the title of the original novel and with Hopkins playing Lecter. Both film sequels featured Anthony Hopkins in the role of Hannibal Lecter, for which he won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1991. A second sequel, Hannibal, was published in 1999 and adapted into a film in 2001. It has since developed a cult following.Īfter Harris wrote a sequel to the novel, The Silence of the Lambs, in 1988 (itself turned into a highly successful film in 1991), Red Dragon found a new readership. Directed by Michael Mann, the film was critically well received but fared poorly at the box office. The novel was adapted as a film, Manhunter, in 1986 which featured Brian Cox as Lecter. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. Red Dragon is a novel by Thomas Harris, first published in 1981.

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris