Three. This is the number of your fate.

Three?

Yes, three is mystic. Three stands at the heart of the mantra.

Which three?

The first is dark-haired. He stands on the brink of robbery and murder. A demon has infested him. The name of the demon is HEROIN.

Which demon is that? I know it not, even from nursery stories.

Part Two of the Dark Tower series is much more accessible and entertaining than the first volume was (and longer, too, 480 pages versus just 264). We find Roland waking up on the beach after his confusing encounter with the man in black, just in time to (narrowly and with severe injuries) escape being eaten by giant lobsters, and follow him as he finds three marked doors through which he enters the minds of three New Yorkers (the Prisoner, the Lady of Shadows, and the Pusher), as well as New York itself, trying to assemble the team he needs in his quest for the Dark Tower.