Meanwhile, Susannah is led to a strange, sentient train named Blaine, who challenges her to a deadly game of riddles.

They are eventually able to defeat the cyborgs and rescue a young boy named Jake, who has been trapped in Lud for some time. Whilst Susannah stays behind to search for information about a mysterious woman who has been haunting her dreams.Īs they make their way through the city, Eddie and Roland encounter a gang of insane cyborgs. Eddie and Roland set off to find a key that will help them on their journey. The trio is forced to split up as they navigate their way through the city. They soon realize that they are in the city of Lud, a place of great danger and violence. They have been transported to Roland’s world, and they are now on a new leg of their journey to the Dark Tower. Once again, we join Roland with his two companions, Eddie and Susannah. There are new evils…new dangers to threaten Roland’s little band in the devastated city of Lud and the surrounding wastelands, as well as horrific confrontations with Blaine the Mono, the piratical Gasher, and the frightening Tick-Tock Man. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World and then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean.īut Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who-in Roland’s world-has already died. Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three, and in The Waste Lands, Roland’s two new tet-mates have become trained gunslingers.

The Waste Lands by Stephen King