Lexi Charmichael is a computer geek for the National Security Agency. She spends her days sitting at a computer going head-to-head with hackers. Field work was not on her resume, until the mysterious disappearance of her best friend, Basia, forces her on a mission of her own. Lexi quickly finds herself surrounded by mysterious, and potentially dangerous, men who may or may not be on her side. There is "Beefy" and "Mr. Middle Eastern guy" who show up at her door looking for "the papers" Basia sent Lexi for safe keeping. Paul Wilkes, her colleague at the NSA, agrees to translate the Polish contract Basia sent Lexi if Lexi goes on a date with him. Lars Anderson may have been more than Basia's karate instructor, for no other reason than Basia would never take karate! Slash the mysterious hacker may or may not work for the US government. Finn Shaughnessy is also looking for Basia, but does he want to help her or hurt her? The only people Lexi can trust are hackers extraordinaire, the Zimmerman twins. Lexi's has to quickly develop some spy skills as she overcomes the challenges in her search for the truth behind Basia's mysterious disappearance.

Lexi was a strong female lead, if a little naive for someone who works for the NSA, and the men were sufficiently sexy and mysterious. The overall premise of NO ONE LIVES TWICE was strong, though I would have preferred a more suspenseful story. Were it not for the subtitle (A Lexi Carmichael Mystery), I would not have known the story was a mystery. I think the plot is more in line with a light spy adventure story.

Book Summary

I'm Lexi Carmichael, geek extraordinaire. I spend my days stopping computer hackers at the National Security Agency. My nights? Those I spend avoiding my mother and eating cereal for dinner. Even though I work for a top-secret agency, I've never been in an exciting car chase, sipped a stirred (not shaken) martini, or shot a poison dart from an umbrella.

Until today, that is, when two gun-toting thugs popped up in my life and my best friend disappeared. So, I've enlisted the help of the Zimmerman twins—the reclusive architects of America's most sensitive electronic networks— to help me navigate a bewildering maze of leads to find her.

Along the way, my path collides with a sexy government agent and a rich, handsome lawyer, both of whom seem to have the hots for me. Hacking, espionage, sexy spy-men— it's a geek girl's dream come true. If it weren't for those gun-toting thugs...

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