Not at all a big reader by any stretch, but literally INHALED both books when a friend lent them to me long ago. Stayed up til sunrise reading each one, couldn't put either down. Wish they did a film adaptation to Fools Die. As for The Last Don...it amazed me how they cast the film so on the money. Joe Mantegna I all along was actually picturing to play 'Pippi' and low and behold when it came out I see he was indeed cast as him. As for the filmed sequel of The Last Don, I didn't watch and I guess that's where the book lets off.