The Gunslinger - Stephen King

Over three decades ago, Stephen King introduced readers to the extraordinarily compelling and mysterious Roland Deschain.  Roland is a haunting figure, a loner in a spellbinding journey into good and evil.  In his desolate world, a landscape strewn with the wreckage of civility, he tracks the man in black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with a boy from New York named Jake.  Both fiercely realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger is the first book in what is perhaps the greatest odyssey Stephen King has ever written.