Special agent Will Graham has been assigned to similar cases before, where he was able to see and feel with the madmen, anticipate their moves and witness their horrific brutality. Now, reluctantly forced out of retirement, he must find an opening into another evil mind - that of the Red Dragon.
Utdrag ur boken:
"Do you want to know What I Am?"
Lounds tried to nod [...]. "More than anything. I was afraid to ask."
"Look."
The first slide was Blake's painting, the great Man-Dragon, wings flared and tail lashing, poised above the Woman Clothed with the Sun.
"Do you see now?"
"I see."
Rapidly Dolarhyde ran through his other slides.
Click. Mrs. Jacobi alive. "Do you see?"
"Yes."
Click. Mrs. Leeds alive. "Do you see?"
"Yes."
Click. Dolarhyde, the Dragon rampant, muscles flexed and tail tattoo above the Jacobis' bed. "Do you see?"
"Yes."
Click. Mrs. Jacobi waiting. "Do you see?"
"Yes."
Click. Mrs. Jacobi after. "Do you see?"
"Yes."
Click. The Dragon rampant. "Do you see?"
"Yes."
Click. Mrs. Leeds waiting, her husband slack beside her. "Do you see?"
"Yes."
Click. Mrs. Leeds after, harlequined with blood. "Do you see?"
"Yes."
Click. Freddy Lounds, a copy of a Tattler [en tidning] photograph. "Do you see?"
"Oh God."
"Do you see?"
"Oh my God." The words drawn out, as a child speaks crying.
"Do you see?"
"Please no."
"No what?"
"Not me."
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