![]() ![]() Boy howdy! I’ve no doubt someone else wrote about serial killers prior to this, and perhaps an odd story or two about criminal profiling surfaced somewhere in print earlier, too. Hmm…maybe if it piqued the horror-meister’s awareness, maybe this 1981 book merited a gander, I innocently presumed. Its author, the reclusive Thomas Harris, I recognized as the one who wrote the 70s terrorist thriller Black Sunday. I’d seen John Frankenheimer’s 1977 film adaptation back in the day and had subsequently read the book it was based upon. ![]() “The Best Popular Novel to be Published in America Since The Godfather”Īs Vincent Vega would put it, “That’s a bold statement.” The eerily titled Red Dragon. On later print runs, publishers would begin advertising the novel with this quote by the famed writer of horror across its cover: Turned out it was a former reporter and editor for the Associated Press who wrote it. ![]() By the early 80s I came across one of these recommendations concerning a book King thought pretty ferocious. Evidently, publishers had become eager to namedrop Maine’s prominent literary talent to hook potential readers in another marketing ploy. Hey, I was once an official Book-of-the-Month club member and knew no bounds. During my Stephen King-reading streak, which spanned more than a few years, if it had the author’s name on it, even in reference, it got my attention. ![]()
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