title: Stephen King's Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three - The Prisoner
author: Peter David
description: Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly two decades. He has worked in every conceivable media: Television (<st1:city u1:st="on">Babylon</st1:city> 5), film (Trancers), books (Star Trek: New Frontier series), and comic books (Incredible Hulk, X-Factor, <st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:placename u1:st="on">Dark</st1:placename> <st1:placetype u1:st="on">Tower</st1:placetype></st1:place>).
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  STEPHEN KING
  
    
    
  
  Hearts in Atlantis
  
    
    
  
  SCRIBNER
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 1999 by Stephen King
  
  ISBN 0-684-84490-7
  
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  This is for Joseph and Leanora and Ethan:  
  
  
  I told you all that to tell you this.  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  
  Number 6: What do you want?  
  
  
  Number 2: Information.  
  
  
  Number 6: Whose side are you on?  
  
  
  Number 2: That would be telling. We want information.  
  
  
  Number 6: You won’t get it!  
  
  
  Number 2: By hook or by crook . . . we will.  
  
  
  The Prisoner
  
    
    
  
  Simon stayed where he was, a small brown image, con-cealed by the leaves. Even
  if he shut his eyes the sow’s head still remained like an after-image. The
  half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. They assured
  Simon that everything was a bad 