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
The Ship Who Sang after the first book, McCaffrey returned to the premise in her first collaboration with Margaret Ball. She soon wrote ship novels with three other co-authors, two of whom later wrote one alone. Co-authored by Anne McCaffrey: Separately authored: These six novels were also issued in omnibus editions of two each. In the popular 1992 science fiction computer game, "Star Control II", the player can embark on an optional side quest to Beta Corvi, and meet a sentient alien race who inhabit a gas giant there. This is an obvious homage to the fourth short story from "The Ship Who Sang",