The Mandel Files

The Greg Mandel Trilogy Mindstar Rising (1993) A Quantum Murder (1994) The Nano Flower (1995) 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.