ebook - Great Families Also Die - Read 20% free, pay to read the rest. The mature Det. Don Scarcell living in the newly formed twenty-first century almost comes in contact with the Grim Reaper, while having an encounter with a terrorist action in NYC. Don?s head throbs as he recalls his friend?s death, along with nine policemen wasted this day. On his way to offer condolences to a fallen young officer, he stops to contemplate, ?What?s life all about?? Why did I be come a cop?? I liked it much better when the only problem I had was not having enough sex.? Don yearned for the times past when he fell in love with his wife, Mary, back in the twentieth-century, in the good ol? 1970?s. Mary gave Don three children, and along with his parents and good friends, raised a great family, only to have them brutally murdered.