Batteur, Henri "Harry" Covert, dit "le professeur," is a Sorbonne ("soar bone") -trained "sciences-po" expert, amateur legume grower, and former top government espionage agent.
Initially his government service star rose quickly. It was Covert after all who was the architect of the brilliant and stunning french naval victory against the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior, still remembered as one of the greatest french naval victories since napoleon.
When internal lapses in security caused the french press to uncover huge slush funds utilized by both the Gaullist and Socialist parties for political fixing and junkets to Euro-Disney, Covert was called into fix "plombier" the situation. His now famous "Gambling...in Casablanca?' response was deemed inadequate, however, and he was forced to flee the country.
Arriving in NYC via Green Giant container ship, he resorted to his musical skills last employed at Sciences-Po "talent night" shows and landed a slot with one of the city's premier pants-themed bands, the pantalons irreversible, before securing the drum chaise with Nous Non Plus.