 Described by the Daily Mirror as "fascinatingly off the wall...a funny and stylish thriller" it was subsequently published in the US in 2003.Having started to develop screenplays a couple of years previously, a collaboration with actor/comedian, Rik Mayall, began in 2004 and resulted in Max co-writing, as an uncredited ghost-writer, Rik's spoof autobiography, "Bigger Than Hitler - Bigger Than Christ" which spent six weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller chart in 2005.A number of screenwriting projects followed with commissions from various television and film producers including Granada Television.