Set in a world on extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters. The Dark Tower series is Stephen King's most visionary piece of storytelling that may well be his crowning achievement.

In ''The Gunslinger'', Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a apellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.

In his first step towards the frightening and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid form New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Men in Black.

Both grippingly realistic and eerly dreamlike, ''The Gunslinger'' leaves readerseagerly awaiting the next chapter.

And the Towet is closer...