Zorin, Max



Max Zorin is a micro-chip entrepreneur, who was born in Dresden. He is the result of Doctor Mortner's experimentation with steroids and pregnant Jewish women inside concentration camps. He is very intelligent as a result of Mortner's experimentation, which manifests in his capacity to apparently speak five different languages without an accent. As well as this, he displays psychopathic tendencies; he is unscrupulous in his attempts to remove any obstacles to the success of his business, even if it means killing his allies.

Zorin then relocated himself from Germany to France with Doctor Mortner his adopted father-like figure, he originally started of his business in the trade of Oil and Gas, before electronics came into his field, he also gained a reputation for being an Anti-Communist. Because of Zorin's powerful business success, he was appointed by General Gogol, to work for the KGB, and he was able to secretly give the KGB some of Zorin's own products, MI6 eventually become suspicious of Zorin's activities, when Bond discovers a microchip off the body of another 00 Agent is found almost completely identical to Zorin's microchips.

Zorin has an obsession for Horse Racing, and uses Microchip-implanted Steroids to cheat in the races, this has lead Zorin eventually having to order his lover May Day to eliminate detective Achille Aubergine, and MI6 colleague Sir Godfrey Tibbett, and Zorin attempts to kill Bond by drowning him in a lake inside a car. He decides to cut away any of his KGB lifestyle, and is left alone by General Gogol, but trouble arises from Stacey Sutton, so Zorin needs to gain control of Sutton Oil, and a proxy fight is rigged to Zorin's favour, but is still unable to gain control of Sutton Oil, so he writes out a $5 million cheque for Stacey's shares in Sutton Oil, instead Stacey rips the cheque apart.

Zorin's Project Main Strike then begins ton draw closer, so Zorin orders May Day to eliminate Chuck Lee (Bond's CIA contact), and shoots state geologist W.G.Howe, and sets City Hall ablaze, also trying to kill Bond in a lift shaft, as Main Strike begins to start, Zorin machine-guns all of his Main Strike colleagues except for Scarpine, but he also attempts to drown May Day in the mine.

Main Strike fails thanks to the intervention of Bond and May Day, angry Zorin kidnaps Stacey Sutton in his zeppelin, but Bond grabs hold on to one of the mooring ropes, Zorin attempts to use the Golden Gate Bridge as a weapon, and batters Bond against the Bridge, Bond manages to survive, Bond causes the zeppelin to crash against the side of the Bridge, forcing Zorin to finally attempt to assassinate Bond. Zorin jumps onto the bridge armed with a Fire Axe, the pair struggle, Bond wins over Zorin, and Zorin falls to his death in the abyss of the San Francisco Bay.