In book 7 of The Dark Tower series, the Crimson King has installed a group of psychics at something of a broadcast station. What are they called and what is their job?
Answer
Breakers, using their abilities, break down the "beams" of existence.
In Book 7 of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, the psychics are called Breakers, and they use their mental abilities to weaken and destroy the Beams that support the Dark Tower and hold reality together.
The Breakers are imprisoned at Algul Siento, a facility near Thunderclap, where the Crimson King’s agents exploit their powers. Their psychic energy is focused through equipment described as a kind of broadcast or amplification system, allowing their thoughts to erode the metaphysical Beams from a distance. The Crimson King’s larger goal is to bring down the Tower and unleash the chaos associated with the Prim.
The group is not called Readers, Suckers, or Stealers. Those choices describe plausible-sounding psychic activities, but they are not the term used in the novel. A notable Breaker is Ted Brautigan, who also appears in Hearts in Atlantis; other characters connect the Breakers to King’s wider fictional universe. The Beams are not ordinary structural supports: they are cosmic forces, each associated with Guardians, that stabilize existence around the Dark Tower.