In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is “at his most ebullient…sweeping readers up in…swells of passion” ( Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. They leave the castle and continue on their quest for the Dark Tower.The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is “splendidly tense…rip-roaring” ( Publishers Weekly)-a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe. His friends vow to stick by him, no matter what the cost. Roland shows his friends how he accidentally killed his mother, Gabrielle Deschain, when he was younger. They confront Walter, who disappears, leaving the Wizard's Glass behind. They find pairs of ruby shoes, which let them gain entry to the Emerald Castle. Roland finishes his story, and he, Eddie and Susannah Dean, Jake Chambers, and Oy continue onward. Roland sees this in a glass orb called the Wizard's Glass and learns he will have to give up the people he loves to ensure the Dark Tower doesn't fall. They tie her up during the Reaping Day festivities and set her on fire.

However, Susan has been captured by the townspeople and her aunt Cordelia, who believe Susan to be a whore and a traitor. They trap Farson's men in a canyon with a thinny, a portal to other worlds, and block off their escape.

They split up and Roland, Cuthbert and Alain manage to kill the traitorous men and two of the Big Coffin Hunters. Roland, Cuthbert and Alain are framed for the death of the mayor, but Susan helps free them from prison. However, she and Roland fall in love, making him neglect his duties and frustrating his friends. Roland also meets Susan Delgado, a teenage girl who is supposed to become the Mayor's gilly or concubine. They discover the mayor and ranchers of the town are working with the rebel John Farson, as well as three men known as the Big Coffin Hunters. He travels with his friends Cuthbert Allgood and Alain Johns to Hambry, a town in the Barony of the Mejis. Roland tells his friends a story of his youth after he became a gunslinger. They realize this world is similar but different from their own. The gunslingers arrive in Topeka, Kansas but find it deserted. Eddie keeps asking silly, nonsensical riddles until Blaine's circuits are fried and his power gives out. Roland challenges him to a riddling contest, and if they win, they get to keep their lives. Unfortunately, Blaine is planning to derail himself at the end of the line in Topeka. Roland Deschain, Eddie and Susannah Dean, Jake Chambers, and Oy the billy-bumbler have escaped the ruined city of Lud on Blaine the Mono. WIZARD AND GLASS is a fiction novel, the fourth in Stephen King's Dark Towers series that tells the tale of Roland Deschain's quest for the Dark Tower.

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