Like good spy thrillers, the plot twists and turns add to the suspense from the very first page. Jordan Kirkwood, the title character, the last operative, has spent the better part of his life as an NSA agent. This job, of course, has caused him to make a number of sacrifices in his personal life, not least of which has been spending little time with his wife who is now dead and his two children, Christa and Ken.

The book addresses two difficult moral and ethical questions: Is the crime of murder ever justified? Is there ever a possibility that DNA test results can be wrong?

Three beautifully written novels of love and courage make up one of Nora Robert’s most successful, most suspenseful, most heart-warming trilogies ever. You will not be able to stop reading until you’ve completed all three.

Handle with Care, Jodi Picoult’s 2009 bestseller, is the heart-wrenching story of a family’s attempt to survive when their second child, Willow, is born with OI, osteogenesis imperfecta, a collagen defect that causes bones so brittle they might break with a stumble, a twist, a sneeze.

The book is at times very touching and engrossing, at times humorous and will leave you in stitches; but you will leave with a renewed faith in your own religion. Albom makes no distinction between religions, but his nonfiction work attests to a deep respect for one’s personal choice.

The Help, a New York Times bestseller by Kathryn Stockett, is a novel depicting the personal relationship between black maids and the white families, especially the women, who employ them. The story is set in a fictional section of Jackson, Mississippi, from 1962 to 1964. It tells a story of what it was like being a black maid in the Civil Rights era in Jackson, Mississippi, as seen through the eyes of two black maids and one liberal white woman, uniquely three first person narrators.