Enrico Balazar, sometimes called Il Roche or The Rock, is a crime boss in the New York City of Eddie Dean's when in 1987. His organization smuggles in cocaine and heroin and then distributes it. He went to business school at NYU for two years. His English is unaccented. He is described as being a fat man with varicose veins, who dresses far below his means. His headquarters is located in a building called The Leaning Tower, a place that Roland originally mistook to be the Dark Tower, due to the differences between written English and written High Speech.