 Welcome to the audio renaissance unabridged presentation of full tilt Written by John Artavanovich and Charlotte Hughes final production supervised by Tony Hutz and read by Laura Lai King Chapter one Our relationship has grown stale Give me a break max. You're shallow muffin Shallow? She gave a snort of disgust This coming from a man who was married to a gold digger named bunny for three years now. There's a relationship with depth He grinned There's something to be said for gold diggers. A man always knows where he stands in the end both parties get what they want And we both know you always get what you want, but let me remind you Maximilian Holt I'm the best thing that has ever happened to you. You need me. I listened to your problems I feed that enormous ego of yours and I can match wits with you any day with both hands tied behind my back I might add Don't forget. I made you what you are today sweetheart without me. You'd be nothing And don't you forget? I'm the one who bails you out every time you get your ass in a sling Speaking of which you're out of fuel. You're running on fumes How far to the nearest gas station a good 10 miles. You could have told me sooner. Yes I could have I've created a monster Max guided the radically customized car down the narrow mountain road Taking each twist and turn with the precision of a professional driver a Pink Floyd CD played from a cutting-edge sound system that would not be available to consumers for at least another year Max took a great deal of pride in his automobile. The same one is friends laughingly referred to as his Maxmobile The car had been designed from the chassis up by former NASA scientists The body and frame were composed of titanium and a newly identified polymer that offered the lightness of fiberglass and the durability of the strongest steel The end result had resembled a Porsche But Max's version was bigger better and could do things that car manufacturers would not find on their drawing boards for years to come Nothing was indestructible, but the Maxmobile Came close The dashboard was more complicated than the cockpit of a leered jet a team of first-rate computer whizzes Hired away from top government contractors had created the car's instrumentation using state-of-the-art equipment Spread out among luxury automotive goodies like a tachometer an altimeter and a global positioning satellite system Were a highly enhanced PDA keyboard a digital speech recognition module a photo quality printer a fax a satellite phone an HDTV display screen and a full video conferencing suite all Operated by a high powered computer that was smaller than an ashtray Thanks to all these modifications Max if he wanted to could run his fast business empire without ever getting out of his car Only a man like Max Holt would have laid out the kind of money it had taken to build such a machine And only a man like Max would have created computer intelligence with voice recognition technology and a sassy personality to match Just for the fun of it He had named her muffin and programmed her with a sexy voice that one employee claimed gave him a stiffy every time he heard it There were those who said it couldn't be done Max had proved them wrong He insisted on the best. He drove himself and his employees hard If he exuded confidence it was because he always succeeded in what he set out to do always Not a difficult task for a man with an off-the-charts IQ and a business acumen that put fear in the hearts of his toughest competitors He created two companies simply to put a scare into AOL and Microsoft The television network he purchased ten years ago had grown far beyond even his own imagination He had recently sold all three companies for a King's ransom Simply because they no longer offered the challenges he craved The New York Times Newsweek and Money magazine were clamoring for interviews But Maximilian Holt did not give interviews. He maintained a low profile at all costs Sure photographers had grainy pictures of him slipping into buildings wearing expensive Italian suits or ducking into stretch limos with a Gorgeous model or actress on his own Sample complete ready to continue