The Gunslinger

Its place in The Dark Tower

The Gunslinger is book 1 in the The Dark Tower series. It is followed by The Drawing of the Three. See the full The Dark Tower reading order.

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." Roland Deschain is the last of a fallen order of knight-gunslingers, chasing a sorcerous man in black across a post-apocalyptic, time-slipped wasteland in a single-minded quest for the Dark Tower — the nexus point that holds every world, including our own, together. Along the way he draws three unlikely companions out of 20th-century New York, forming a ka-tet bound by fate as much as choice, and the series widens from a spare, Sergio…