After his confrontation with the man in black atthe end of The Gunslinger, Roland awakes to find three doors on thebeach of Mid-World's Western Sea--each leading to New York City but atthree different moments in time. Through these doors, Roland must "draw"three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. In 1987, hefinds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. In 1964, he meetsOdetta Holmes, the Lady of Shadows, a young African-American heiress wholost her lower legs in a subway accident and gained a secondpersonality that rages within her. And in 1977, he encounters Jack mort,Death, a pusher responsible for cruelties beyond imagining. Has Rolandfound new companions to form the ka-tet of his quest? Or has heunleashed something else entirely?