bThe third volume in the 1 nationally bestselling Dark Tower Series, involving the enigmatic Roland the last gunfighter and his ongoing quest for the Dark Tower, is Stephen King at his best iSchool Library Journali.b pSeveral months have passed since iThe Drawing of the Threei, and in iThe Waste Landsi, Roland's two new iteti-mates have become trained gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta's two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But Roland altered ikai by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who--in Roland's world--has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness the paradox of double memories. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World and then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. There are new evils...new dangers to threaten Roland's little band in the devastated city of Lud and the surrounding wastelands, as well as