Young Max Khäutsch, newly commissioned a captain in the Trabants, was here on his first overseas assignment, as field chief of "K&K Special Security," having already proven himself useful at home as an assassin, an especially deadly one, it seemed.
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Now I'm really confused by what Lew meant by his "opposite"! Maybe he just meant the guy leading the protection detail on the Austrian side, just as he was leading the protection detail on the American side. That take seems to be justified by the evidence here, where Max Khäutsch is the captain of the Trabants. The evidence against Lew looking for somebody like-minded is that Max is a proven assassin who has apparently killed multiple targets. What has Lew done? Divorced his wife and gone through Interdimensional AA? I suppose Lew has done something else super terrible but it's not like Pynchon is ever going to reveal what that was!
Max being "an especially deadly" assassin probably means he's as excited about hunting Hungarian Stockyard workers as the Archduke and Nate Previtt. Come to think of it, I can't think of a single person in 1893 America who would have been against it aside from the Hungarian Stockyard workers and who was going to listen to them?! Maybe suffragettes? But then they had their own problems!
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