Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba

“An impressive work of mythic magnitude that risk turning out to end up being Stephen King’s ideal literary accomplishment” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.

A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to 1 of Stephen King’s most effective creations, Roland of Gilead: THE FINAL Gunslinger. He is a haunting physique, a loner on a spellbinding journey into great and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an appealing woman named Alice, and starts a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake.

Inspired in part with the Robert Browning narrative poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Emerged,” The Gunslinger can be “a convincing whirlpool of a tale that attracts one irretrievable to its center” (Milwaukee Sentinel). It is “amazing and new…and will keep you panting for more” (Booklist).