Wilson Buckley

“They just call me Crack. That’s the sound it makes when I bust heads.”

Wilson Buckley
Occupation	Owner of the Down and Dirty Club
Gender	Male
Age	33 (as of 2060)
Hair	None
Height	6 feet, 6 inches (198.12 cm)
Spouse	n/a

AKA: “Crack”

Introduction

“Crack” first appeared 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. There was a tattoo of a snake slithering over his left cheek.
  • A face seamed with tattoos (tattooed lips).
• 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.
  • A giant of a black man with a rocket launcher chest and a huge head; he was big as a sequoia and black as onyx; he was tall as a house and from the deepness of his complexion, a full black.
  • 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.
• When Dallas first met him, he was wearing feathers in his hair and he loped across the street with the surprising grace of an enormous black gazelle.
• His laughter was like a thunderclap.

Personality

• He was open to accepting credits/money for providing Dallas with information. In Origin in Death, however, he told 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.”
  • He sometimes stopped by the tree planted (by Roarke and Eve) for his little sister.
• He normally spoke in “jive” but, on hearing of his sister’s death, the jive vanished from his speech. After Eve invited him to Thanksgiving dinner, the jive vanished from his voice again when he accepted.

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.
• 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. He described his sister as his baby girl, his heart and his soul.

Interesting Facts

• Crack enjoyed watching vampire movies.
• Crack said Dallas just didn’t smell like a cop.
• The funky junkie in Glory in Death said Crack had a car and the pissant Reeve, down the hall from her, does too.
• We learned that Crack’s name was “Wilson Buckley” in Portrait in Death.
  • He was called Crack for his habit of cracking skulls together if his customers’ behavior displeased him.
• He said his sister gave him a photograph of herself the month before, for his birthday (in July).
• In Visions in Death, we learned that he worked out at Zone to Zone.
• In Promises in Death, he kissed Eve on the mouth.
• In Connections in Death we met his lady, Rochelle Pickering.
• As of Passions in Death, they were living together.
• In Passions in Death, Erin Albright and Shauna Hunnicut held their pre-wedding girls’ night out party at his club. Albright was strangled in privacy room five, the one where Jake Casto took Eve after tranqing her in Immortal in Death.

YANNI

• Throughout the series, it was said that Crack got his name because that was the sound it made when he busted heads and/or knocked them together. However, in Betrayal in Death it was said he'd gotten his name for the sounds those heads made as they met concrete.