Henri Davide

Henry Davide was a legitimate businessman, if by legitimate businessman we mean an incorrigible lowlife with unreasonably high ambitions. Once, long ago, he has been a very minor player in the criminal empire of Henry Maurice Allard. After that fell through, he settled down in Paris, establishing a den of iniquity known as the Faige and waited long and hard for success to come to him. And lo and behold, eventually his hope was seemingly rewarded, when his worth was recognised by another criminal mastermind: the infamous doctor Fu Manchu. Eager to assume control over Allard's former empire, Fu Manchu used Davide to reestablish important contacts and sell some of Allard's newly-recovered specialty drugs, like "king bee's pollen", remarkably popular in occultism-plagued Paris. As Davide's empire grew, he acquired new talents such as Zack Zimmerman and Ignace Paoli; and also valuable clients such as Joseph Gallieni, shortly before him becoming the military governor of Paris in the face of the new war with Germany. Patriotic in a way, but mostly commerce-minded, Davide viewed supplying French officers with drugs as a patriotic duty, and the profits made thereby a patriot's due.

But things went wrong. He attracted the hatred and rivalry of a new player on the Paris scene, a young man who introduced himself as Jean Jaurres. Increasingly paranoid about this young man's persistent stalking and surprisingly large and competent network of subordinates (something that was partly fed by Zack), Davide tried to shore up his defenses and turtle down. But in the end, he was still a small fry. After Zack, in the pursuit of his own secretive agenda, murdered the wrong man, that man's associates burned down the Faige with Davide still inside it, too fat and old to escape in time. This was his final and greatest contribution to the growing shadow conflict between Schwarzmeer - whose followers were behind the attack - and Fu Manchu.

Probably not a real pedophile and just kept acting that way to creep out lovely young boys. But we'll never know for sure now.

Absolutely a real Jew though, which must be the main reason why Zack found it easy to charm his way into his circles in the first place. And not that other thing.

And a real drug dealer, conman, racketeer, pimp, etc. Wonderful human being.