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David Foster Wallace's 10 favorite books

The late great novelist David Foster Wallace's 10 favorite books.

- Daisy Alioto, Monitor contributor

3. ‘Red Dragon,’ by Thomas Harris

Harris’s dark prequel to ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ centers around retired FBI agent Will Graham, who returns to crack the case of a crazed serial killer called The Tooth Fairy. Graham enlists the help of his last capture, the psycho cannibal Hannibal Lecter. However, Lecter is loyal to no one, and Graham struggles as the walls between his thoughts and those of the killer grow thin. 


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