Max Klizer is, along with Eddie Kaye, an illegal arms supplier to the highest bidder. Klizer is always well-dressed and is presumably highly educated. He conducts business in a luxurious office decorated with priceless antiques as well as rare and unusual firearms. In the manner of a suave international businessman, Klizer handles the sales and marketing end, while the tougher Kaye handles distribution. In 1986 Sonny Burnett and Topo Manyeri (an international buyer) are looking to purchase a laundry list of sophisticated weaponry for a war overseas (implied as the Apartheid struggle in South Africa), including Stinger missiles (hoping the purchase will flush out suspected IRA terrorist Sean Carroon). Klizer agrees to sell the weapons wholesale to Burnett and Manyeri. However, Sean Carroon