Stephen King

In the third volume in the epic series 'The Dark Tower', Roland of Gilead is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower, which haunts his dreams and nightmares. Revelations begin to unfold about who and what is driving him forward.

Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, sets out on his journey of good and evil in his ultimate quest for the Dark Tower. This is the first volume in the series.

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It is the children who see - and feel - what makes the small town of Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread.

In the fertile lands of the East, the farming community has been warned that the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are heading their way. And the farmers of the Calla want to enlist some hard calibers. Roland faces his most deadly perils as he journeys towards the Dark Tower.

First came the days of the plague, then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms. Staff Pick: Another pandemic thriller, with some religious themes thrown in for good measure. Great characters, the majority of whom you’ll...

The sparrows are flying again. The idea haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind. He should be happy; for years it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now he is writing seriously again under his own name, and his pseudonym is buried forever.