The editions measure 6” x 9” and feature eight full color illustrations by Jason Mowry. The text is set in Eric Gill’s Golden Cockerel type and printed offset in two colors throughout. The signed limited edition of Red Dragon by Thomas Harris is presented in three states: Lettered, Numbered and Artist Gift editions. This is the first signed limited edition of the novel. The book has been adapted into two feature films Manhunter in 1986 and Red Dragon in 2002. The success of Red Dragon would lead to two sequels and a prequel in the Hannibal series. This, combined with his attention to the detail of FBI and police operations, added harrowing realism to his novel, and to the genre itself. The Silence of the Lambs is a beautiful novel by the author. The Hannibal Lecter character of the author got a lot of fame. He is an American writer best known for suspense novels.

Harris writes his villains with a profound complexity. It is the first installment in Hannibal Lecter Series which is written by Thomas Harris. In Red Dragon, former FBI profiler Will Graham comes out of retirement to apprehend a serial killer known as “The Tooth Fairy,” but to do so he must enlist the help of Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer with whom he has a dark past. His extensive research was poured into creating one of the most iconic villains in history: Hannibal Lecter.

Harris took criminology classes to prepare for the novel, while working closely with FBI Behavioral Science agents. The first novel in the widely acclaimed Hannibal Lecter series, Red Dragon added a sense of realism to the crime novel while injecting it with a heavy dose of horror. Hailed by critics as “gruesome, graphic, and all too realistic,” Red Dragon by Thomas Harris was first published in 1981 and marked a turning point in the way crime novels were written.