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    Vision Machine: A short story of biblical proportions
    Vision Machine: A short story of biblical proportions
    Vision Machine: A short story of biblical proportions
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    Vision Machine: A short story of biblical proportions

    By Chris Malburg

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    Rachel Kinder is a lawyer. She is trained to be skeptical. She values cold, hard evidence over speculation and shaded nuance. During her latest routine trial of an alleged Nazi war criminal, the most extraordinary turn of events in all of legal history falls into her lap--Vision Machine. Suddenly Rachel has the tool to produce the hard evidence she needs to win her case. The question is will her shaky faith and doubting lawyer’s training reject the gift given her?

    At the same time the entire world is watching Rachel Kinder and her trial. Will Mankind exhibit the same dogged resistance to accepting actual, indisputable historical truth? Will we reject Vision Machine’s capacity to unveil historical events as they actually happened without prejudiced taint, ulterior motives or erroneous accounts?

    The trial of the century--or any other century, for that matter--serves as the backdrop for the story of Vision Machine. The story introduces a technology, the likes of which mankind has been waiting for forever. Literally. In the process the story raises questions each of us has thought about but can yet only guess at the answers.

    Vision Machine is an extraordinarily engaging story. Well crafted and character driven, it provides multiple layers on which to view its message. Chris Malburg hit it out of the park with this one.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Malburg
    Release dateOct 2, 2011
    ISBN9781465712820
    Vision Machine: A short story of biblical proportions
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    Chris Malburg

    Chris Malburg is a widely published author, with over 4 million words published over 12 popular business books--including How to Fire Your Boss (Berkley)and Surviving the Bond Bear Market (Wiley, March 2011). Simon & Schuster, Putnam, Wiley and McGraw Hill all publish Chris' work. That’s the professional side of his career. The fun side is that he has transitioned into a serious novelist. A CPA/MBA and former investment banker, Chris certainly has the business chops to weaponize an industrial WMD. He has crossed chasm from biz-speak into fiction. He wrote his latest novel, A PIRATE'S TIME SERVED, while at Stanford's Writers School. During this fast-paced young adult novel he took a departure from the much more adult Enforcement Division books. Though Jack and Helen Schilling still manage to worm their way into the plot with their extraordinary combat skills. Chris' second novel in the Jack Schilling Enforcement Division series is GOD'S BANKER, an action/adventure conspiracy to take over the Roman Catholic Church by force. Chris' first book in this series is DEADLY ACCELERATION, where Jack Schilling battles a group of industrial terrorists using cars as their weapon of choice.

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      Vision Machine - Chris Malburg

      Vision Machine

      A short story of biblical proportion

      By Chris Malburg

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      Vision Machine

      By Chris Malburg

      Published by Chris Malburg at Smashwords

      All rights reserved

      Copyright 2011 by Chris Malburg

      Smashwords Edition

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to others. If you would like to share this book, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Malburg, Chris

      Vision Machine/ Chris Malburg

      ISBN 978-1-4657-1282-0

      1. Israel--Fiction. 2.Nazi war crimes--Fiction. 3. Laser imaging--Fiction 4. Holocaust--Fiction 5. Legal procedure--Fiction 6. Criminal detection--Fiction

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      Table of Contents

      Vision Machine

      About the author

      Also by Chris Malburg

      Connect with me online

      A final word from the author

      Car Wars, Chris Malburg’s latest novel

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      Vision Machine: A short story of biblical proportion

      By Chris Malburg

      The accused was a shriveled up former Nazi with emphysema and a supposedly bad ticker. I have prosecuted three of them so far--for money the State pays me rather than for any sense of revenge. Truth is I lost each trial. I’m a better lawyer than that. I suppose my time will come. I am a patient person. If this man ever did anything close to the horrendous accusations contained in my laundry list of charges, he did them before I was ever born. My name is Rachel Kinder. I work for the State of Israel in the office of the Attorney General.

      Sure, we have our zealots--I’m not one. I’m just a 38 year-old, 5 foot-seven, 128 pound wife and loving mother to our two young children. I have worked my way up the Israeli legal food chain to my present position as Deputy State’s Attorney in charge of war crimes prosecution. As for the zealots, I find their greatest fear is someone ripping away the foundation of their faith, setting

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