James O'Neal was raised in Florida, learning all he could about his home state from an early age. He has worked in law enforcement for more than twenty years. His love of writing pushed him first to writing history articles on Florida, then a successful series of crime novels under the name James O. Born . It was natural for him to combine his interest in the history, as well as the future of Florida and his police background to write a police thriller set in the future. He is in a unique position to predict trends not only in the evolution of crime, but in Florida population and state political issues.