A serial killer, whose victims almost never see it coming. One that Roland and Eddie witness firsthand as the portal into her consciousness opens.Īs The gunslinger and his new charges make their way to the door marked "The Pusher", the must contend with 'Detta, Odetta's other personality, who is.let's just say unpleasant.įinally, Roland must enter "The Pusher". She is also wheelchair-bound since her legs were unceremoniously amputated above the knees after being pushed in front of a subway train by a mysterious stranger. The next door, labelled "The Lady of Shadows", opens upon Odetta, a young, black woman who is a social activist and very wealthy from the fortune her father made in his profession as a dentist and patent holder, which he then left to her at his death. You'll love finding out how Roland and Eddie first become acquainted, "deliver" the drugs, and then make their way to the next magic door. The first, Edward Cantor Dean, or as the door proclaims, "The Prisoner", is a herion addict and a drug mule for a mobster named Balazar.He also just happens to be on board an international flight making it's way back to NYC, with quite a bit of heroin taped under his arms. In fact, the portals open onto a version (or versions) of our own Earth, inside the consciousnesses(es?) of three individuals, whom Roland must first enter, and then use, in his quest to gain the Tower. From there we meet the remainder of his Ka-tet, and one very disturbed individual behind three magic "doors" or portals to another time and dimension. Roland's obsession with the Dark Tower began when he was little more than a boy (as you will discover in later volumes), but the actual journey there begins on the shore of the Western Sea, which is where we find him at the outset of Drawing. This massive tale spans seven volumes, but only really gets cooking until the second book, The Drawing of the Three.
If you read the gunslinger and were left wondering if this was a series that you were willing to invest a lot of time and money in getting into, give this volume about 50 pages and there will be no doubt left in your mind.
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