Greg Mandel is a fictional private detective who featured in three novels and a novella by the English science fiction writer Peter F. Hamilton.
The stories are set in a near-future England, centred around Hamilton's own home county of Rutland. Mandel is a former officer of the 'English Army', who fought in the 'Mindstar Brigade', a tactical psychic unit. He was given the psychic powers of intuition and detecting emotions, skills he uses for his new profession of psychic detective.
The stories are set in a Britain recovering from the damages suffered during ten years of "Marxist-Maoist" dictatorship under the People's Socialist Party and also the ravages of global warming and collapsing financial markets.
After three highly successful novels featuring Mandel had launched his career, Hamilton only briefly returned to him for the novella The Suspect Genome, and otherwise moved on to writing quite different books. The author said in 1996,
Greg was a very good start for me and people have enjoyed it and I think; 'leave it at that.' [1]
Contents |