Max Bauer is one of the main antagonists in the story. Max is a very dangerous man who is in charge of the slave trading that is taking place. It is Max who comes to Port Royal looking for Kin in the hopes that he can kill Kin before any further information about the white girls being sold as slaves is found. Max tries several times to kill Diana and Kin but Max is killed by Kin in Kin's home. Max works for Pittingel.