Age: 50 Height/weight: 5 feet, 11 inches; 205 pounds Residence: Boynton Beach, Fla. Born has written five Florida mystery novels, including Escape Clause (Putnam), which won the gold medal in the inaugural Florida Book Awards. In June, under the pseudonym James O’Neal, he published The Double Human (Tor), a sci-fi novel set in Miami. For [...]

James O. Born, author of five Florida-based mystery novels and a recent sci-fi mystery set in Miami (under the pen name James O’Neal), might be the most fit novelist in the peninsula tip. Also a special agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Boynton Beach resident keeps in shape for his day job, [...]

Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads (Oceanview Publishing; $28) hit bookstores and e-tailers on July 5. The volume was co-edited by critic Hank Wagner and David Morrell, the author of First Blood (“Rambo”) as well as a co-founder of the International Thriller Writers organization. Essays cover the “top” 100 thrillers dating from Beowulf to The Da Vinci Code. [...]

    Florida Department of Law Enforcement special agent James O. Born, who has published five Florida mystery novels, recently published a science fiction novel under the pen name James O’Neal. The Human Disguise earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly. “This near-future page-turner debut amalgamates apocalyptic science fiction, police procedural and thematic dashes of [...]

    Palm Beach County novelist James O’Neal, who has written several popular mystery novels under the name James O. Born, is now writing science fiction. The author is also a special agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and in his free time mountain bikes, runs and windsurfs.   The Human Disguise (June [...]