Author(s): Mal Peet

Young Adult Fiction

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 sports 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. The gripping sequel to the bestselling Keeper, winner of the 2004 Branford Boase Award and the 2004 Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize.