Who is Ricky Hernandez in the novel, Good Kings Bad Kings?

Ricky Hernandez is a driver and aide for ILLC. He is a tall, large Puerto Rican man who is a little rough around the edges. His heart has a soft spot. Ricky had seen abuse in his family growing up, so he is slow to anger now. Ricky always seems to take a moment and think about where another character is coming from. He does not see isolated incidents. Everything people do is caused by something that happened to them as recently as that morning or as long ago as their childhood. He seems to ask: “What circumstances created their lives?” Ricky also has a tendency to say the wrong thing.