Tricia Sullivan: Maul [2003] paperback

The gun straps to the inside of my leg with Velcro. It’s not the absolute zenith of fashion to do this anymore, but girls who wear theirs with leather straps and buckles aren’t serious: with Velcro you can get at the thing when you need it.

I also have a pink DKNY ammo belt. It’s heavy, but who said fashion was easy

In a mall like any other, a gang of teenage girls are suddenly caught up in an orgy of shopping and violence. But – as the designer bullets fly – it is not only their own lives they are fighting for. Unknown to them they are battling for the life of a man trapped in another place, in a different world, and with very different enemies.

He is a man they have never met, but who represents the future of the human race … or may destroy it.