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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.[4]
- A giant of a black man with a rocket launcher chest and a huge head;[5] he was big as a sequoia and black as onyx;[6] he was tall as a house and from the deepness of his complexion, a full black.[7]
- 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.[8]
- When Dallas first met him, he was wearing feathers in his hair[9] and he loped across the street with the surprising grace of an enormous black gazelle.[10]
- His laughter was like a thunderclap.[11]
Personality
- He was open to accepting credits/money for providing Dallas with information.[12] 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."[13]
- He normally speaks in 'jive' but, on hearing of his sister's death, the jive vanished from his speech.[15] After Eve invited him to Thanksgiving dinner, the jive vanished from his voice again when he accepted.[16]
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.[17]
- 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.[18] He described his sister as his baby girl, his heart and his soul.[19]
Interesting Facts
- Crack enjoys watching vampire movies.[20]
- Crack said Dallas just didn't smell like a cop.[21]
- The funky junkie in Glory in Death said Crack has a car and the pissant Reeve, down the hall from her, does too.[22]
- We learn that Crack's name is 'Wilson Buckley' in Portrait in Death.[23]
- He was called Crack for his habit of cracking skulls together if his customers' behavior displeased him.[24]
- He said his sister gave him a photograph of herself the month before, for his birthday (in July).[25]
- In Promises in Death, he kissed Eve on the mouth.[26]
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.[27] However, in Betrayal in Death it's said he'd gotten his name for the sounds those heads made as they met concrete.[28]
References
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), pp. 37, 38
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 279
- ↑ Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), pp. 139, 140
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), pp. 37, 38
- ↑ Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), p. 139
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 279
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 37
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 114
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 37
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 39
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 115
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 38; Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), p. 141
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), pp. 280, 281
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 115
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 289
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), pp. 280, 281
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 37
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), pp. 289, 291
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 291
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 38
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 37
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 243
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), pp. 286-289
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 37; Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 115
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 292
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 115
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-15098-6), p. 37; Visions in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-20300-2), p. 188; Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22894-4) pp. 112, 113
- ↑ Betrayal in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-17857-7), p. 139