The Dark Tower The Gun Slinger Author:Stephen King This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations - the Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualitites of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western... more » legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black. his liason with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendhip with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of the drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery.« less