Cardinal David Caneman took just three years to engineer his ascension into the CEO's office of Vatican Bancorp. His cabal of fundamentalist zealots now quickly moves to seize the world's largest institution. First by publicly assassinating the Pope. Next by replacing him with Caneman. Finally by giving the masses a common, everyday object-unquestionably used by their savior-to rally behind. For centuries, folklore has claimed the sacred item laid in wait sealed within the Church's lost treasury vault. Caneman races to unearth the vault-if it exists. He has bet everything that he can find the blessed object, surely buried within. He intends using it to sweep the faithful from their ungodly ways and into his personal standards of piety. The Taliban took just two years to overthrow Kabul. Armed with over a billion faithful worldwide and a $200 billion war chest-and the sacred Broom Of Formia-Cardinal David Caneman figures it will take him just half that time to conscript the hearts and minds first of Europe, then... Jackson Schilling enjoys his happy, early retirement. He attends minor league ball games near his home in Elkhart, Indiana. He's an amateur chef. And Jackson Schilling is a hunter. Then the SEC drafts him. Come on, Jack. One last audit. It's mandatory after an attempt on the Vatican Bank Chairman's life. But Jackson Schilling is no ordinary auditor. And it was his Commander in Chief who personally ordered him drafted. Schilling exhaustively uncovers Caneman's deadly purpose. First he must stop a professional assassin from completing his mission against the Pope. Now the hard part-derail a fundamentalist faction led by a brilliant, ruthless and some would say] saint to over a billion faithful. Jackson Schilling battles a force growing faster and more deadly than the Crusades, the Inquisition or the Taliban ever were. Legitimate governments will surely topple, becoming answerable to one man and his band of strict fundamentalists if Schilling fails.

Kaito Automotive's sudden acceleration car crashes are no accident SEC enforcement examiner and retired Navy SEAL, Jackson Schilling, unearths what at first seems merely a manufacturing defect at the world's largest car manufacturer. Schilling just fell down the rabbit hole of deception. The lives of thousands of unsuspecting motorists worldwide suddenly hang in the balance. They are collateral damage to an even more sinister plot. Schilling works exhaustively to expose a conspiracy employing weaponized mass financial destruction on a global scale. He is up against a brutally sophisticated gang whose resources rise to the highest levels of the Chinese and American governments. Shilling's struggle and epiphany along with that of his billionaire father and Helen Kaito, daughter of Kaito Automotive's chairman, resonate with current headlines and real world occurrences. The book's electrifying combat sequences, plausible use of financial discovery as a weapon and the featured locations--Elkhart, Beijing, Shanghai and Washington DC--all accelerate the plot's movement. Deadly Acceleration maintains its suspense to the end as Schilling and his out-gunned group reveals the true purpose of this act of global industrial terrorism. They fight to disarm a truly unique weapon and then give the perpetrators a taste of justice, American-style. Deadly Acceleration is an 83,000-word action-adventure novel written for leisure readers, travelers and vacationers in search of pure entertainment. The book targets young professionals, 18-35. Deadly Acceleration draws on Chris Malburg's lifetime career in corporate finance. After 12 successful business books, Chris now turns this experience and meticulous research to a different purpose--global domination perpetrated by one country over another. All without firing a shot. Readers know Chris Malburg for his technical accuracy and crisp writing style. Both are present in Deadly Acceleration, the first Jackson Schilling novel.