[citation needed] His third novel, Escape Clause, won the gold medal in the inaugural Florida Book Award.
In addition to working on interesting investigations involving organized crime, serial killers, public corruption, and narcotics, Born joined the FDLE Special Operations team.
In 2011, Born was awarded the Lifesaving Medal directly from the Governor of Florida after he jumped into a canal at night to rescue a little girl who had been thrown from a wrecked vehicle.
Born acted as a technical advisor to the short-lived ABC series Karen Sisco, starring Carla Gugino.
After reading so many police novels that had no relation to reality, Born thought it was important to write a book about which even a cop would think, "I could see that happening.
[citation needed] His next two novels, Field of Fire and Burn Zone, feature an ambitious ATF agent who still lives with his parents.
"[citation needed] The novels, set in the near future, follow a flawed detective through a ravaged landscape of Florida, investigating what appears to be a gang war.
The first was Border War, which is about a drug cartel in Juarez, Mexico, and the federal task force trying to battle them in El Paso, Texas.
Born wrote several novellas or "book shots" with Patterson before taking over the Michael Bennett series with the novel Haunted.
Most notably, Born appeared on the Discovery Channel's A Crime to Remember, regarding a famous murder from the 1950s of a judge in Palm Beach County.
The documentary, Send Me, detailed the US military's effort to provide medical evacuation to allied soldiers wounded in combat.