While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into the life of a different person living in contemporary New York. Here he links forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.

New introduction by the author, 2003. Novel previously published: West Kingston, Rhode Island. : Donald M. Grant, 1987.

Argument -- Prologue: the sailor -- The prisoner -- Shuffle -- The lady of shadows -- Reshuffle -- The pusher -- Final shuffle.