The Last Don The Last Don The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the author of "The Godfather". The story alternates between the film industry and the Las Vegas Strip casinos, showing how the Mafia is linked to both. The last plan of Don Domenico Clericuzio, an aging Mafia boss, is to eventually have his family enter the legitimate world and assimilate into American society. Twenty-five years later, his grandson Dante and grandnephew Croccifixio (Cross) make their way through life, and the eighty-year-old Don is semi-retired. Cross, who holds a majority share in a Las Vegas casino, is
Don Pendleton with the publisher, Pinnacle Books, over ownership of the series. Pinnacle had the next entry, "The Executioner #16: Sicilian Slaughter," written by William Crawford under the pseudonym "Jim Peterson." Pendleton ignored "Sicilian Slaughter" and wrote The Executioner #17: "Jersey Guns," as a sequel to #15, "Panic in Philly," under a new contract with New American Library, which was ultimately voided by the terms of his settlement with Pinnacle, and he returned to the Bolan character for 21 more novels. Since 1980, "The Executioner, Mack Bolan" books and spinoffs - Able Team, Phoenix Force, Stony Man, and Mack Bolan - have