The Dark Tower · Book 3
The Waste Lands
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 422
- ISBN-13
- 9780451210869
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Waste Lands is number 3 in The Dark Tower series, published in 1991. A 4-year gap separates it from The Drawing of the Three. It was written by Stephen King.
Its place in The Dark Tower
The Waste Lands is book 3 in the The Dark Tower series. It follows The Drawing of the Three. It is followed by Wizard and Glass. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451210869
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780937986172
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781848941113