322 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2012 by Scribner.
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.)
A little bit different than the rest of The Dark Tower series but still worth a read. You can read it as book 4.5 or wait until you finish the main series.
