Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger of a world that has moved on, continues his quest for the Dark Tower.
The Drawing of the Three is the second book in Steven King's epic series The Dark Tower. The story picks up immediately where The Gunslinger left off. Roland leaves the mountains and arrives at the Western Sea. Here he encounters the 'lobstrositys' hungry for flesh. In a cruel twist of fate, the creatures rob him of part of his right hand and poison Roland with their bite.
As the poison spreads through Roland's body, he continues on, laboriously making his way down the beach. Sick and dieing, Roland comes across the first door on the beach. A door hanging on nothing but the salty sea air. The time has come to draw the three.
Like the tarot reading given to him by the man in black, the doors are marked THE PRISONER, THE LADY OF THE SHADOWS, and THE PUSHER. Roland first draws Eddie Dean, a heroin addict in a great deal of trouble. The gunslinger draws Detta/Odetta Walker, a wheel chair bound woman with two very different personalities living in the same body. And the final door leads to Jack Mort, the pusher.
