- "Trust me."
- ―"Mister Max", pulling a gun on Indiana Jones[src]
"Mister Max" was a secret agent working for the Austrian monarchy. During World War I he was tasked with safely escorting the members of the Sixtus Affair—Henri Defense, Sixtus and Xavier of Bourbon-Parma—safely in and out of Austria but was killed on the assignment.
Biography[]
Mister Max occupied an apartment on the fifth floor of a large building in the old quarter of Vienna, near the banks of the Danube.[2]
The Secret Treaty[]
In March 1917, Mister Max was stationed in Vienna when he jumped into a carrying Henri Defense, Sixtus and Xavier of Bourbon-Parma. He forced them to follow him to a cafe where he dialed out, revealing that their original contact, Frederick, was killed by the Secret Police. He later brought them to Laxenburg Castle before Karl I and Zita of Bourbon-Parma, the monarchs of Austria-Hungary.[1]
Death[]
Max was originally set to help Defense and the princes back to France by providing with them new papers and civilian clothes. However, he was discovered by the German secret agents led by The Prussian and hanged in his apartment. Defense and the princes discovered his lifeless body shortly after.[1] His dead eyes bulged from his contorted face and his swollen tongue was sticking out. His face was badly bruised and in the match light he looked like a grinning ghoul from their worst nightmares.[2]
Personality and traits[]
Mister Max used a Luger pistol.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Mister Max was portrayed by the late John Saint Ryan in the The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode "Austria, March 1917", later edited into Adventures in the Secret Service.[1]
In Nigel Robinson's novelization The Secret Treaty, Max is described having a bald head,[1] despite the portrayal in the TV episode[1] and the Dark Horse Comics' comic book adaptation.[3]
Appearances[]
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Austria, March 1917" → Adventures in the Secret Service
- The Secret Peace
- The Secret Treaty
- Vienna, March 1917