Mr D. "D." The Tooth Fairy-Великий Красный Дракон

Born in Springfield, Missouri with a Unilateral complete cleft lip and palate, Francis Dolarhyde is abandoned by his mother and cared for in an orphanage until the age of five. He is then taken in by his grandmother, who subjects him to severe emotional and physical abuse. After his grandmother becomes afflicted with dementia, Dolarhyde is turned over to the care of his estranged mother and her husband in St. Louis, Missouri; he is further abused by this family, and is sent back to the orphanage after being caught hanging his stepsister's cat. He begins torturing animals at a young age. After being caught breaking into a house at age 17, he enlisted in the Army. While on his tour in Japan and neighboring countries, he learns how to develop film as well as receiving cosmetic surgery for his cleft palate. He later gets a job with the Gateway Corp. as the production Chief in their largest division - home videos. Dolarhyde begins his killing spree by murdering two families within a month after discovering The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun with both crimes being committed on or near a full moon; it is hinted in the book that he had killed before that, however. Dolarhyde is obsessed with the image and convinced that he is "Unique" and is Becoming the Dragon. He chooses his victims through the home movies he edits as a film processing technician. He believes that by killing people (or "transforming" them, as he calls it) he can fully become the Dragon. On a trip to Hong Kong, he has a large dragon tattooed across his back, and had two sets of false teeth made; one of them normal for his usual life, the other distorted and razor sharp for his killings, based on a mold of his grandmother's snaggle-toothed grimace. There is also a sexual component to his crimes; he molests the corpse of one adult female victim, and he often masturbates to the films he himself makes while committing murder. FBI profiler Will Graham is asked to return from early retirement to aid in his capture. Graham had previously captured Garrett Jacob Hobbs ("The Minnesota Shrike") and Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic psychiatrist and serial killer, whom Dolarhyde idolizes. Graham visits Lecter in the Chesapeake Mental Institute, hoping that the doctor would be able to help identify the Dragon, or at least assist in creating a psychological profile. Following this meeting, Lecter "helps" by sending Dolarhyde Graham's address in code with the note, "Kill them all." Dolarhyde is foiled when Graham's FBI supervisor Jack Crawford intercepts the message in time to warn Graham's family and the local sheriff. Dolarhyde reads The National Tattler, a tabloid which runs sensationalistic stories and gossip, and he obsessively collects clippings about Lecter's arrest and trial, and about Graham, as well as his own murders. In an attempt to provoke Dolarhyde out of hiding, Graham gives an interview to Tattler reporter Freddy Lounds in which he insults the "Tooth Fairy" as an impotent homosexual, and that Lecter considers him a "bottom-feeder." This enrages Dolarhyde, who kidnaps Lounds, strips him naked and Superglues him to a wheelchair, forces him to recant his article on tape, bites his lips off, then returns to Chicago and sets him on fire and rolls him down an incline going into the Tattler's parking garage. Lounds dies a few days later in the hospital. Over the course of the novel, Dolarhyde develops a relationship with a blind woman named Reba McClane who works at Gateway. The relationship quells his murderous impulses at first, but her presence only infuriates the other part of Dolarhyde's psyche. Desperate now to retain control of himself and deny his violent urges, Dolarhyde flies to New York, where he devours the original Blake watercolor, believing it would destroy the Dragon. The plan fails, however; if anything,