"Red Dragon" in popularity can only be compared with "The Godfather of Puzo," said the world famous American writer, author of mystical thrillers Stephen King. One of the main characters of the novel "Red Dragon" is the smart, insidious doctor Hannibal Lecter, the same genius of villainy, more familiar to us from another novel by T. Harris "The Silence of the Lambs." But the master of psychopathology has a worthy follower - Francis Dolarhyde, who surpasses his teacher in cruelty and sophistication in crimes. The book includes a novel by another equally famous American writer K. Vonnegut, "The Sirens of Titan." His heroes, with their senseless and often simply stupid actions, resemble the characters of the era of "developed socialism."