Charles “Chip” Wallace is a project manager in banking and finance with 15 years of experience across financial services, healthcare, and technology. After his mother’s death in 2022, he used his industry background to reconstruct four years of financial exploitation by a professional caregiver — uncovering 3,055 transactions, institutional failures across multiple national banks, and a serial predator who had used the same playbook on a previous victim a decade earlier.
The Caregiver’s Game is his first book. He lives in the St. Louis area with his wife and two daughters.
Why This Book
I didn’t set out to write a book. I set out to understand what happened to my mother.
The investigation became the book because the story was bigger than one family — it exposed systemic failures in banking, elder protection, and the legal system that leave millions of vulnerable adults at risk.
If one family reads this and catches what I missed, it was worth writing.
Endorsements
“Instructive to families and professionals alike.”— Dr. Peter Lichtenberg, Director, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University
“A grief-soaked memoir and a warning label at the same time… He refuses to polish his mother into a saint. She’s vain, sharp, often unkind, and the book leans into that. That honesty made the whole thing feel more trustworthy.”— Literary Titan (5-star review)