Slide by Jason Starr & Jason Starr & Ken Bruen

Author:Jason Starr & Jason Starr & Ken Bruen [Bruen, Ken; Starr, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857683915
Publisher: Titan
Published: 2011-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

If a man should challenge me now, I would go to that man and take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand, lead him to a quiet retired spot and kill him.

MARK TWAIN

Max was gearing up for the big meeting with the Colombians, trying to learn as much Español as he could. He’d sent his bee-atch out to get him the tapes and he was listening to them whenever he had time, which wasn’t often because he was mucho busy. Mucho, see how he intuitively knew this shit?

The idea to learn Spanish came to Max one morning on the bowl when he was thinking because, like, thinking was his forte.

See, when you were a clued-in dude like The M.A.X., you not only got to use words like forte, you had a reasonable idea of what they meant. He’d been telling himself like a mantra, know your market, and know the guys you’re dealing with. He hadn’t built up this hell of a business without being savvy, and he liked to think of himself as straddling both sides. Yeah, the boardroom, piece of cake, he could do the biz gig in his sleep. Sometimes he believed he was born with the Dow Jones in his mouth. Your regular working stiff, he read the sports section of the Daily News, moved his lips as he read, but The M.A.X., he didn’t just read the business section, he fucking devoured it. Wall Street Journal, man, he subscribed, and knew his name was in every editor’s address book over there. Come on, if you were a journalist in the business world and didn’t have an in with Max Fisher, then who the hell were you anyway?

Who knew, maybe one of these days the Journal would ask Max to do a regular column for them and if Max was in a philanthropic mood, had some free time on his hands, felt the need to give back, maybe he’d accept. He’d call the column, what else, The M.A.X. Have guys in all the happening bars going, “I was reading in The M.A.X....” or “The M.A.X. says...” Yeah, he could see it. The double hit of coke he’d had with his croissant and skim milk latte helped the visualization. And, hey, it could happen. But the bottom line was Max was too busy. The guy who came up with multitasking, shit, that guy had The M.A.X. in mind.

So, anyway, Max was thinking that the Colombians were coming to town, and those dudes spoke, like, Spanish, right? So, you were going to be in bed with them, you better, like, speak their lingo. Seemed to make sense. And it was this kind of preparation that had made Max the hombre he was today.

Hombre. Man, he was getting this shit down fast.

He listened to the Spanish tapes whenever he got some downtime and when you were as freaking busy as Max, running a goddamn crack empire, there wasn’t a whole load of free time floating around. He listened when

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