The novel The Last Don is about a tight knit family who runs the mafia in New York city in the mid 1950's. They are so close because if one person falls away from the family and turns on them everything they have can disappear in a second. Now the family has two new baby boy's who were just baptized into the Church and sin free , and the family does not want them to have to live the way they did. The family had o clean up and spilt apart a bit one member moved to los Vega's t own a casino and others moved else where.