The first installment of the giant Dark Tower saga that Stephen King has been writing since his student days
The title character, the gunslinger Roland, is the last gunman of a ghostly world lost monstrously far in the future. It is a world devastated both physically and morally, giving the impression that it is hell and its inhabitants the souls of sinners. And it is the truth of this world, whether it is the real underworld or just a terrifying alternative to our world, that Roland is stubbornly searching for.
