Roland brings Eddie back through the door so he can hide the cocaine and get through a customs inspection, but the agents become suspicious and subject him to a lengthy interrogation and surveillance. The first door (labeled 'The Prisoner') brings Eddie Dean, a young heroin addict who is in the process of smuggling cocaine into New York for the drug lord Enrico Balazar. Each door opens onto New York City at different periods in time (1987, 19, respectively) and, as Roland passes through these doors, he brings back the companions who will join him on his quest to the Dark Tower. Feverish and losing strength, Roland continues to trek north along the beach, where he eventually encounters three doors. Roland wakes up on a beach, where he is suddenly attacked by a strange, lobster-like creature, which he dubs a ' lobstrosity.' He kills the creature but not before losing the index and middle finger of his right hand, and most of his right big toe his untreated wounds soon become infected. The book begins less than seven hours after the end of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger after The Man in Black has described The Gunslinger's fate using tarot cards. As his health wanes, he must travel the shoreline in search of three doors that will allow him access to Keystone Earth, from where he encounters people – including the drug-addict Eddie Dean, the schizophrenic Susannah Holmes, and the psychopathic Jack Mort – who are tied to his journey to the Dark Tower. The book was illustrated by Phil Hale.įollowing Roland Deschain's confrontation with the man in black, the gunslinger descends from the Cyclopean Mountains to the Western Sea, where he is attacked by lobstrosities from the ocean. The book was released by Grant in May of 1987, and is the second volume of the Dark Tower series.

The Drawing of the Three is the 24th book published by Stephen King it was his 20th novel, and the 15th novel under his own name.

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