The Mandel Files, Volume 1 Quotes

“Nor is she yours, not any more,’ Greg replied. ‘No longer your little girl. She makes her own choices now.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder

“Greg weighed up her personality, figuring how to make his play.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder

“Back on land he headed for the pub to forget the kill. The Army had taught him how to handle that as well. How to suspend human feelings in combat, to refuse the blame for all the deaths, the pain, suffering, horror. Greg had never woken screaming like others in the regiment had.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder

“Why?’ he asked. ‘Absolution.’ He didn’t get it, they never did. His death was a duty, ordered by guilt. Greg had learnt all about duty from the Army,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder

“Greg had flown them on fifteen missions in Turkey,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder

“He didn’t rate a wave this time; she simply stood watching him drive off, looking small and sad. He folded the rear-view mirror’s image up and tucked it away in a corner of his mind. The last thing he needed now was any more guilt rattling round inside his skull.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder

“contumacy.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder