The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. Roland Deschain, the last of his kind, crosses a vast and dying wasteland in pursuit of the Man in Black - a sorcerer whose capture may hold the key to Roland's quest for the Dark Tower. Along the way he encounters a boy named Jake, pulled from our world into his, and makes a choice that will haunt the books that follow. The first novel in the series is spare and strange, closer in feel to a prose poem than a conventional fantasy - deliberately disorienting, deliberately withholding. First published in a limited edition of 10,000 copies by Donald M. Grant, it was substantially revised by King in 2003 to align with the later books.
