For Max Millien, everything was a problem to be solved. A restless mind. A gnawing hunger for control and escape. When he discovered a world of chemical love, he thought he'd found his next project to perfect.

What began as self-medication spiraled into a full-blown criminal enterprise, engineered with ruthless logic. But code can't fix betrayal, and no plan survives human chaos.

Traffic Engineer is a harrowing memoir of collapse, incarceration, and resurrection-a portrait of a man who thought he could hack life, only to discover the most complex system he'd ever rebuild was himself.