"BORN TO RUN" and "LAST TO DIE" by James Grippando

Never heard of the author but I needed something to read and grabbed "Last to Die."  It was really good,  my kind of who-dunit. I like a character who lives throughout a series of stories and Jack Swyteck is the man.  His sidekick, Theo, becomes a pain in the neck, a bit too silly for me.  I'd like to just slap him and get on with the story.  But there's a lot of interplay between Jack and Theo in both of the books.  So I assume Theo is here to stay.