The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
In addition, the two main sections of the book ("Jake: Fear in a Handful of Dust" and "Lud: A Heap of Broken Images") are named after lines in the poem.[1] Five weeks after the events of the previous book, Roland, Susannah, and Eddie have moved east from the shore of the Western Sea, and into the woods of Out-World.Jake abruptly leaves school and finds a key in a littered vacant lot where a single red rose has bloomed.Jake manages to pass into Roland's world using the key to open a door in an abandoned haunted house on Dutch Hill in his place and time.Before arriving there, the ka-tet hear the drum beat from the song "Velcro Fly" by ZZ Top playing from the city, although Eddie at first cannot remember where he has heard the rhythm before.Roland and Oy must then track them through a man-made labyrinth in the city and into the sewers in order to rescue the boy from Gasher and his leader, the Tick-Tock Man.