gmt02_A Quantum Murder - 00.nfo
General Information
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Title: A Quantum Murder
Author: Peter F. Hamilton
Read By: Toby Longworth
Copyright: 1994
Audiobook Copyright: 2011
Genre: Sci-Fi
Series Name: Greg Mandel
Position in Series: 02
Abridged: No
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 28
Total Duration: 11:50:39
Total MP3 Size: 327.02
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Book Description
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From Library Journal
This second volume in British author Hamilton's cyberthriller trilogy (Mindstar Rising, LJ 6/15/96) depicts a tropical England after global
warming. Greg Mandel has a bioware endocrine-gland implant that triggers his empathic intuition, handy when solving crimes. Here he must investigate
the brutal death of professor Edward Kitchener, who had been researching quantum cosmology for the Event Horizon conglomerate. In this tightly
wrought tale of murder, Hamilton integrates hard sf and mystery while tackling ecological and political issues. Highly recommended for most
sf collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
A second workout for Greg Mandel, veteran of the Mindstar Battalion (Mindstar Rising, 1996), whose implanted gland gives him the psi powers
of empathy and intuition in a medium-future England beset by climatic warming and politico-economic chaos. This time, irreverent, bawdy old genius physicist
Edward Kitchener has been murdered and horribly mutilated at Launde Abbey, where he ran a colloquium for budding physics whizzes, invented new drugs,
researched wormholes, and generally raised hell.
Julia Evans of Event Horizon, which funded Kitchener, requests Greg's input after the police confess themselves baffled: None of the six young resident
physicists appear to be guilty, nor is it possible for an outsider to have come and gone undetected. Greg empathically interviews the six,
and, sure enough, they're all innocent. So Greg's wife, Eleanor, volunteers to test a Kitchener drug that should enable her to view the past. She witnesses diffident genius Nicholas Beswick do the grisly deed, but
Beswick denies involvement, as Greg's inquiries seem to confirm. What's going on? Well, psychiatrist James MacLennan has discovered how to project
one personality on top of another--and one of his patients is convicted psychokiller Liam Bursken.
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