These equally vivid characters quickly become gunslingers in their own right to assist Roland on his all-consuming quest, one that spans the remaining five novels.

What begins in the first novel, THE GUNSLINGER, as a mere game of cat and mouse across the desert between Roland and his nemesis, the ever-elusive Man in Black, quickly turns into an engrossing adventure in the second book, THE DRAWING OF THE THREE, which finds Roland as the leader to an odd grouping of New Yorkers who have been forcefully pulled into Roland’s home, Mid-World, from separate time periods. Roland’s entire existence is predicated on making it to the Tower in time to save it, and us all, from utter destruction by the hand of a sinister force. Roland Deschain of Gilead is the world’s last gunslinger, an ageless knight-like figure, burdened with his destiny of reaching the Dark Tower, the imposing and ominous structure that serves as the nexus of the universe. That magical tale is Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, a breathtaking epic of immense proportions, centered around one of the most memorable protagonists in modern literature. But few, perhaps not even the writer himself, thought that such a tale would resonate in the literary world for decades to come. It was a simple concept: a single man must confront evil and destroy it for the sake of his own life and all life around him.

The dark tower series in order