The Waste Lands, by Stephen King. Pub 1991

Book three and still going strong, The Waste Lands picks up right where the previous book ended. Roland and his not-so-merry band are making their long and slow way toward the Dark Tower. Jake returns to the story, after we get to see a bit more about his New York life prior to his “accident”, and the strange melding and overlapping of the various worlds and timelines. The group ends up in a decrepit city that reminds all the New Yorkers of home but is not the city they know (although one that doesn’t sleep). The strange and violent residents, along with an evil and insane AI system that controls the city, present some significant challenges to the gunslingers – for they are all that, now. The book ends on more of a cliffhanger than the previous books, something acknowledged and almost apologized for by the author in the book’s afterword.

And so onward to the next book…

Fate: little book library.

1 – a murder
17 – place name
36 – part of a series