Richard Troy

For other uses of Richard, see Richard (disambiguation).

Troy, Richard “Richie”

First Mention: Naked in Death

Richard Troy was Eve’s biological father; from when she was about five or six, he began raping her, continuing until the night of his death when Eve was eight years old. Eve killed him with a kitchen knife while he was drunkenly raping her, in Dallas, Texas, but he broke her arm during the process. He was present in every single book, as he was always the spectre of Eve’s nightmares. Typically, he appeared in her nightmares to tell her that no matter how many people she found justice for, there would always be more monsters like him, waiting to do more evil to innocents like the little girl she was.

His first name was revealed in Judgment in Death; his last name was found by Roarke in his file on Homeland Security Organization’s files in Divided in Death. Troy was working as a kind of informer for HSO, despite the fact that he was a criminal with a minor child, Eve (at eight years old). Richard Troy was raising Eve - who was definitely his biological child - with the intent of using her for child prostitution.

Mira concluded and told Eve in Reunion in Death that Troy was probably not a pedophile himself, but preferred adult women, something that Eve did vaguely remember. In Interlude in Death, Roarke realized that his father, Patrick Roarke had business in Dallas, Texas, with Troy, the same week of Troy’s death. This business was fully realized in Divided in Death; Eve remembered her father telling her in Reunion that she was finally going to start working (or rather, being raped for her father’s profit). That Patrick Roarke was there, with cash, on his own business, indicated that Troy was going to sell Eve to Patrick Roarke. For the record, HSO was perfectly aware that Eve murdered Troy, but cleaned up the body and had the case unsolved, as they had themselves recommended she not be taken out of Troy’s custody.

Troy also had business dealings with Max Ricker, the villain of Judgement in Death, and stole money from him. Ricker knew he had a daughter, but over twenty years later, did not make the connection between Troy and Eve. Troy was under surveillance by the HSO the day he died. He was recorded as having returned to his hotel room at 2:00 a.m. in the morning; in Eve’s memories, he began beating and raping her immediately after his return, during which she killed him. Therefore his time and date of death was shortly after 2:00 a.m., May 13, 2036.[4]

His aliases included: Richie Williams, William Bounty, and Rick Marco.