Field doctrine for finance leaders, credit professionals, and operators serious about commercial recovery.
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The Black Ledger Series
The complete commercial recovery doctrine — available in Kindle and print.
Commercial Credit & Collections — Book 1
The Million-Dollar Commercial Collections Playbook
New Release
The ultimate blueprint for CFOs, credit professionals, and elite business owners — the Collection Cycle Engine™, the Black Ribbon Method™, and the systems top enterprises use to protect cash flow and collect with authority.
Commercial Credit & Collections — Book 2
Proven Strategies for High-Stakes Business Recoveries
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The high-stakes follow-up for CEOs, CFOs, legal departments, and elite operators — a proven system for collecting large outstanding debts with precision, power, and professionalism across borders and industries.
Commercial Credit & Collections — Book 3
The Lien Lever
New Release
Mastering the art of securing and collecting liens in the modern economy — UCCs, mechanics, warehouse, and judgment liens, demand-letter templates, enforcement playbooks, and a fully automated lien dashboard framework.
Commercial Credit & Collections — Book 4
The Commercial Lien Playbook
New Release
Mastering recovery in high-stakes B2B collections — the strategy, psychology, and legal mechanics of filing and enforcing UCC, mechanic's, and judgment liens, with scripts, templates, and a full lien lifecycle checklist.
Commercial Credit & Collections — Book 5
Recover What's Yours
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The executive guide to mastering commercial collections and cash recovery — contracts that demand payment, escalation playbooks, liens and judgments, KPIs, and cross-border enforcement for CFOs and credit leaders.
Commercial Credit & Collections — Book 6
Collect the Judgment
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The definitive guide to turning court wins into cash — bank levies, wage garnishments, real estate liens, turnover orders, asset investigation, and how to build and scale a judgment recovery portfolio.
Commercial Credit & Collections — Book 7
Judgment Capital
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Unlocking the hidden wealth in court orders — how to seize assets, deploy liens, levies, garnishments, and debtor exams, buy enforceable judgments for pennies, and scale a recovery business or judgment-backed fund.
The Black Ledger Series — Book 8
Commercial Collections
New Release
A guide to collecting from million-dollar companies — win high-value commercial clients, build scalable systems, navigate compliance, and maximize recovery rates without burning bridges.
The Black Ledger Series — Book 9
Enforcement Protocol
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How elite dealmakers recover, protect, and close every dollar — a boardroom-level recovery system for M&A, private equity, and law firms with Recovery Clauses, cross-border enforcement, and the Enforcer's Ethos.
The Black Ledger Series — Book 10
CCE Exam Study Guide
New Release
Pass the Certified Credit Executive (CCE) exam on your first attempt — full coverage of all five NACM knowledge domains, essay and case study strategies, practice questions, formulas, and exam-day time management.
The Black Ledger Series — Book 11
Certified Commercial Collector Exam Study Guide
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Pass the CCC exam on your first try — complete coverage of negotiation, legal enforcement, compliance, skip tracing, and ethics, with practice questions, checklists, and references to NACM, CCAA, and the UCC.
Doctrine of Commercial Recovery
The Black Ledger
Upcoming
The Black Ledger
Chris Eaton
The foundational text of BlackLG — a field doctrine for CFOs, Controllers, and Credit leaders on recovering the receivables others write off.
A Field Manual for Secured Creditors
Lien Mechanics
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Lien Mechanics
Chris Eaton
Mechanic's liens, UCC enforcement, bond claims, and the leverage that converts paper rights into collected dollars.
From Paper to Capital
Judgment Recovery
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Judgment Recovery
Chris Eaton
Domestication, asset investigation, and post-judgment enforcement — the playbook for monetizing dormant judgments.
The Black Ledger Score™ Doctrine
AI in Commercial Recovery
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AI in Commercial Recovery
Chris Eaton
How artificial intelligence is rewriting credit risk, debtor profiling, and the economics of contingency recovery.