The penalty

Mal Peet

Original title: The Penalty

earliest edition we have, 2006 Candlewick, 2009 paperback 272 pages

Paul Faustino, known as the best soccer journalist in the business, reluctantly investigates the disappearance of eighteen-year-old Ricardo, a soccer prodigy known as "El Brujito," while in alternate chapters a slave in old San Juan becomes a powerful voodoo priest.

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Editions we hold

Penalty edition · 2016 · Candlewick Press · 272 pages · 9780763687786
The Penalty paperback · 2016 · Candlewick · 272 pages · 9780763687472
Penalty paperback · 2016 · WALKER BOOKS · 9781406370577
Penalty edition · 2016 · Candlewick Press · 9781484498323
Penalty edition · 2016 · Candlewick Press · 9780763687793
Penalty paperback · 2012 · Walker & Company · 272 pages · 9781406338393
Penalti paperback · 2011 · Tudem Kultur · 272 pages · 9789944695138
The Penalty paperback · 2009 · Candlewick · 272 pages · 9780763643393
The penalty hardcover · 2007 · Candlewick Press · 262 pages · 9780763633998
The Penalty paperback · 2006 · Walker Books Ltd · 264 pages · 9781844280995

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