The novel “Maul” by Tricia Sullivan was published for the first time in 2003.

Sun is a teenager who is part of a girl gang. A Saturday she goes to the Mall along with her gang but there she and her friends end up clashing with another gang and their shopping projects must give way to weapons. The police intervention makes the situation even more complicated and dangerous.

Meniscus is used as a guinea pig in a laboratory that makes research on viruses. The hope is to avoid another epidemic which could wipe out the men but the research is made more difficult because Meniscus is not an ordinary man and the people around him have their own agenda.