Meant to be a ten book series, cut short...a real shame. I too have been pushing The book on my friends, the movie was very good. At first I thought the books were a bit slow, but the character development (including the bad guys) made the reading more visceral and the characters more HD than the movie had time for. Granted Directors only have a finite time frame, did a great job, '...Played with fire' opens soon here so am looking forward to it!