Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." Roland, the world's last living gunslinger, lives out the predictions of tarot cards dealt him by the man in black in the first volume in King's, the Dark Tower Fantasy series, The Gunslinger (1988). Now the man in black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle.