The Drawing of the Three is the second book in the Dark Tower series published in 1987. The subtitle for this book is RENEWAL.
Plot
The book opens approximately seven hours after the conclusion of The Gunslinger. Roland has a dream about "The Sailor" he was told about during the Tarot reading, he soon awakens on the beach and finds a strange creature on the beach which looks like a cross between a scorpion and a lobster. Roland dubs these creatures: lobstrosities. The lobstrosity Roland encounters walks up to him and bites off two of his fingers, his index and middle. Roland is unable to shoot the monster because his bullets have become wet. In the struggle against this monster Roland also loses his big toe on his right foot. Roland soon becomes sick; possibly because the lobstrosities are poisonious but mostly due to his wounds becoming infected. Roland trudges down the beach in hope of finding the ones Walter told him of. He eventually comes upon a door marked "The Prisoner" in the High Speech. The door is only visible and can be opened on one side. Roland opens it and steps into New York City 1987.