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The Penalty by Mal Peet

As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, its teenage football prodigy, El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without trace. Paul Faustino, South America's top sport's journalist, is reluctantly drawn into the mystery. As a story of corruption and murder unfolds, he is forced to confront a bitter history of slavery, and the power of the occult.