TY - BOOK AU - King,Stephen AU - King,Stephen AU - King,Stephen TI - The waste lands T2 - The dark tower SN - 9781501143540 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Roland (Fictitious character : King) KW - Fiction KW - Quests (Expeditions) KW - Gunfighters KW - Heroin abuse KW - Treatment KW - Memory KW - Fate and fatalism KW - Ruins, Modern KW - Monorail railroads KW - Horror fiction KW - lcgft KW - Fantasy fiction N1 - Book one: Jake: fear in a handful of dust -- Bear and bone -- Key and rose -- Door and demon -- Book two: Lud: a heap of broken images -- Town and Ka-tet -- Bridge and city -- Riddle and waste lands N2 - Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three, and Roland's two new tet-mates have become trained gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta's two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who -- in Roland's world -- has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World and then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. There are new evils and new dangers to threaten Roland's little band in the devastated city of Lud and the surrounding wastelands, as well as horrific confrontations with Blaine the Mono, the piratical Gasher, and the frightening Tick-Tock Man ER -