A fast-driving car thief and killer, Hell Tanner faces a life sentence until offered a chance at redemption: deliver antiserum to plague-stricken Boston. This perilous journey turns into a treacherous road trip through a post-apocalyptic America filled with radioactive storms and monstrous creatures. As Tanner navigates the dangers of Damnation Alley, he must confront not only external threats but also his own moral choices in a world where survival is anything but guaranteed.
Marc Seidman's idyllic world is brutally ripped apart when he is gunned down in his home. Twelve days later he wakes up in hospital to learn that his wife is dead and his baby daughter Tara is missing. A ransom demand is made and agreed to. But something goes terribly wrong. The kidnappers escape, and Marc remembers the ransom note's ominous warning: there will be no second chance. An agonising eighteen months pass with no word. And then, as Marc has just about given up all hope of seeing his daughter again, a package arrives with a note attached: want a second chance? The note is chilling, but Marc sees only one thing: the chance to save his daughter. And, haunted by deception and deadly secrets - about his wife, about an old love, and about his own past - he vows to bring Tara home ... at any cost.
In a desolate reality, one that mirrors our own in frightening ways, a lone and haunt- ing figure known only as Roland makes his way across the endless sands in pursuit of a sinister, dark-robed mystery of a man. Roland is the last of his kind, a "gunslinger" charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world—a world that "moved on" as and the only way he can possibly hope to save every- they say ... thing is to first outwit and confront this man in black, then make him divulge his many arcane secrets. For despite the countless miles he's already traversed, Roland knows these will merely be his initial steps on his spellbinding and soul-shattering quest to locate the mystical nexus of all worlds, all universes: the Dark Tower..
Roland and his tet have just returned to the path of the Beam when they discover that they are being followed by a group of inexperienced trackers. The trackers are from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis, and they desperately need the help of gunslingers. Once every generation, a band of masked riders known as the Wolves gallop out of the dark land of Thunderclap to steal one half of all the twins born in the Callas. When the children are returned, they are roont, or mentally and physically ruined. In less than a month, the Wolves will raid again. In exchange for Roland’s aid, Father Callahan—a priest originally from our world—offers to give Roland a powerful but evil seeing sphere, a sinister globe called Black Thirteen which he has hidden below the floorboards of his church. Not only must Roland and his tet discover a way to defeat the invincible Wolves, but they must also return to New York so that they can save our world’s incarnation of the Dark Tower from the machinations of the evil Sombra Corporation.
Po wielu niebezpiecznych przygodach Roland z Gilead ma nowych towarzyszy krucjaty – Eddiego i Susannah. Dla obojga rozpoczyna się czas nauki, zdobywania nowych umiejętności; tymczasem rewolwerowiec stopniowo traci zmysły. Spotkanie z leśnym potworem podsuwa im nowy trop w poszukiwaniach Wieży. Szlak wędrówki wiedzie całą trójkę przez leśne ostępy, prerie z kryjącymi się w trawie demonami i wyludnionymi miasteczkami, aż po dżunglę zrujnowanego miasta Lud, pełnego ciał wiszących na słupach. Na koniec czeka ich największe wyzwanie – pojedynek z demoniczną sztuczną inteligencją sterującą naddźwiękowym pociągiem…
Po konfrontacji z człowiekiem w czerni Roland budzi się na brzegu Morza Zachodniego, gdzie odnajduje drzwi – wrota czasowe umożliwiające mu przeniknięcie do Ameryki drugiej połowy XX wieku. W Nowy Jorku spotyka troje wybranych: młodego Eddie Deana, piękną Odettę Holmes i Jacka Morta, seryjnego zabójcę. Wraz z nimi powraca do swojego świata. W krucjacie przeciwko siłom zła zyskuje nowych sprzymierzeńców, którzy pomogą mu w misji rozwikłania tajemnicy Mrocznej Wieży.
