Eddie Dean proves his resourcefulness by defeating the psychotic monorail Blaine by, ironically enough, solving a riddle presented in Charlie the Choo-Choo (one that the party never realized was such until the end). "Wizard and Glass begins on a high note with Stephen King's own version of Riddles in the Dark. Wizard and Glass is a thrilling read from “the reigning King of American popular literature” ( Los Angeles Daily News). While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, Roland recounts his tragic story about a seaside town called Hambry, where he fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who-with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit-ignited Mid-World’s final war.įilled with “blazing action” ( Booklist), the fourth installment in the Dark Tower Series “whets the appetite for more” ( Bangor Daily News). In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is “at his most ebullient…sweeping readers up in…swells of passion” ( Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is “splendidly tense…rip-roaring” ( Publishers Weekly)-a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.
Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba
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