mass market paperback, 760 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 1995 by New English Library.
You'll lose a lot of sleep.
Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death.
That's when Ralph begins to lose a lot more than sleep. When he begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend, Ed, is getting out of control - dangerously so. And why his home town is about to become the new Armageddon.
An evil of unimaginable proportions has found a way in and Ralph has only one chance to beat it. The stakes are high - they always are when you're playing for human souls. With a Joker in the pack...a bald one with a rusty scalpel. (back cover)
I wish I had read this before reading Dark Tower #7. That said, I don't think it was that great of a stand-alone book. Really slow burn through the first two parts. And the pace felt comparatively frantic in the third part as the story rushed to conclusion.
