Warning: Possible
spoilers below:
Wizard and Glass is the fourth part of the
Dark Tower series by
Stephen King. In this, the most recent chapter in the Dark Tower saga, we find
Roland,
Sussana,
Eddie,
Jake &
Oy still aboard
Blaine, the
suicidal train. They manage to escape prior to being
smashed to bits and find themselves in the
Kansas of
The Stand, after everyone has died of
Captain Trips.
Travelling along
I-70, Roland tells his band the story of
Susan, his
first love, and
Hambry. As a youth and
apprentice gunslinger, Roland is sent along with two of his friends,
Cuthbert and
Alain, to the
Outer Baronies to collect inventory for possible future conflicts with
John Farson (the
Good Man). What they find in Hambry is worse than they could have imagined and it is complicated by Roland's
affair with Susan. Here they also find the '
glass ball', a sort of crystal ball that is but one piece of '
the Wizard's Rainbow'. Roland learns of the Dark Tower after gazing into the ball and determines from that point on, the Tower is his quest.
Roland and company continue along I-70 where they encounter a large castle similar to the one in
The Wizard of Oz. Here they meet an old friend from
Lud.
The quest for the Dark Tower will continue, according to King, sometime in the
next year or so.