Andrew Quick, known as the Tick-Tock Man to his followers, is a fictional character created by Stephen King

Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...

 appearing in The Dark Tower series

The Dark Tower (series)

The Dark Tower is a series of books written by American author Stephen King, which incorporates themes from multiple genres, including fantasy, science fantasy, horror and western. It describes a "Gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. King...

. Quick serves as one of a few primary antagonist

Antagonist

An antagonist is a character, group of characters, or institution, that represents the opposition against which the protagonist must contend...

s in The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands.

Andrew Quick is the great-grandson of David Quick, who was found dead in a 1930s Nazi fighter plane by Roland Deschain

Roland Deschain

Roland Deschain of Gilead is a fictional character, the protagonist and antihero of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. He is the son of Steven and Gabrielle Deschain and is descended from a long line of "gunslingers", peacekeepers and diplomats of Roland's society...

 and his ka-tet before entering the city of Lud

Lud (city)

Lud is a fictional city in Stephen King's Dark Tower series and is briefly mentioned in Rose Madder. In The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, the book's protagonists, led by the gunslinger Roland, travel from Lud to an alternate reality version of Topeka, Kansas via a supersonic monorail called...

. Andrew leads the Grays, a group of inhabitants in Lud. Quick orders the capture of one of Roland's crew, Jake Chambers

Jake Chambers

John "Jake" Chambers is a fictional character in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels. He first appeared in the short story "The Way Station" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in April 1980, which was later compiled as one of the chapters of the first Dark Tower book, The...

; moments after capturing the boy, Quick's forces are suddenly attacked. During the ensuing struggle between the Grays and Roland's ka-tet, Quick loses an eye and is shot in the head. He survives, however, to meet a man referring to himself as Richard Fannin

Randall Flagg

Randall Flagg is a fictional character created by Stephen King. Flagg has appeared in seven novels by King, sometimes as the main antagonist and others in a brief cameo. He often appears under different names; most are abbreviated by the initials R.F. There are exceptions to this rule; in The Dark...

, and gladly enlists to help find and kill Deschain.

Fannin claims to have chosen Quick because he reminds him of a man who once served him and whom he still has a sentimental spot for. He then asks Quick to repeat the phrase "My Life for You". This refers to King's novel The Stand

The Stand

The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel by American author Stephen King. It demonstrates the scenario in his earlier short story, Night Surf...

and the character Trashcan Man, who subtly resembles Quick and the two may well be twinners.

Quick reappears in a minor role in The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass. When Roland and his ka-tet reach a deserted and alternate Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

 from that of their own world, they travel down highway I-70, eventually reaching a green castle. The green castle and the events occurring between are almost an exact replica of The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...

, with Quick turning out to be the man behind the curtain. Quick appears as an injured and mindless zombie

Zombie

Zombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...

serving Flagg. At the creature's command, he attempts to kill Roland's ka-tet, but Roland shoots and kills him.