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AKA: "Crack"[]

Introduction[]

'Crack' first appears in Glory in Death when Eve Dallas questioned him during her investigation of the murder of Cicely Towers.

Description[]

  • His cheek tattoo was vivid green and in the shape of a grinning human skull. He had a wide, dazzling grin and an unbelievably ugly face.[1] There was a tattoo of a snake slithering over his left cheek.[2]
    • A face seamed with tattoos (tattooed lips).[3]
  • His fingers were the width of soy wieners and he had big hands; the nail on his index finger was sharpened to a lethal point and painted black.[1]
    • A giant of a black man with a rocket launcher chest and a huge head;[4] he was big as a sequoia and black as onyx;[2] he was tall as a house and from the deepness of his complexion, a full black.[5]
    • Six and a half feet of muscle; He has a wide, homely face and his black skin gleamed against an open leather vest and body ink. His shaven head shone like a dark moon.[6]
  • When Dallas first met him, he was wearing feathers in his hair[5] and he loped across the street with the surprising grace of an enormous black gazelle.[7]
  • His laughter was like a thunderclap.[8]

Personality[]

  • He was open to accepting credits/money for providing Dallas with information.[9][10] In Origin in Death, however, he tells Dallas, "Don't you think about paying me. I went to the park this morning, had a talk with my baby girl by the tree you and your man had planted for her. Don't ever think about paying me for a favor."[11]
    • He sometimes stops by the tree planted (by Roarke and Eve) for his little sister.[8]
  • He normally speaks in 'jive' but, on hearing of his sister's death, the jive vanished from his speech.[12] After Eve invited him to Thanksgiving dinner, the jive vanished from his voice again when he accepted.[11]

History[]

  • He was the bouncer at an all-nude sex club across from the Five Moons when Dallas first met him. He offered to put in a word for her for five percent of her tips.[5]
  • His mother did domestic work and whored on the side; she died when Crack was sixteen and Alicia Dilbert, his sister, was four. Since his mother's death, and Alicia went to medical school, Crack raised her.[13] He described his sister as his baby girl, his heart and his soul.[14]

Interesting Facts[]

YANNI[]

  • Throughout the series, it's said that Crack got his name because that's the sound it makes when he busts heads and/or knocks them together.[5][20] However, in Betrayal in Death it's said he'd gotten his name for the sounds those heads made as they met concrete.[21]

References[]

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