After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of The Gunslinger , Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World’s Western Sea-each leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, Roland must « draw » three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. In 1987, he finds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. In 1964, he meets Odetta Holmes, the Lady of Shadows, a young African-American heiress who lost her lower legs in a subway accident and gained a second personality that rages within her. And in 1977, he encounters Jack mort, Death, a pusher responsible for cruelties beyond imagining. Has Roland found new companions to form the ka-tet of his quest? Or has he unleashed something else entirely?