The Penalty
Sports reporter Paul Faustino reluctantly investigates the disappearance of a young soccer star from San Juan who has not been seen since he missed a winning penalty kick during a big game, and unknowingly the journalist becomes entangled in a world of slavery and the occult.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], soccer, occult fiction, slavery, mystery fiction, south america, missing persons [X], journalists [X], vodou, soccer stories, voodooism, historical fiction [X], historical fiction