the dark tower beckons roland, the last gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. and, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, rolands relentlessly cunning old enemy, and the temptation of the wizards diabolical glass ball, a powerful force in rolands first love affair. a tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named susan delgado. and the tower is closer...