This is a truly incredible series for readers aged 12+ who also love football and elements of mystery, which has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
In each book in the series, a sports journalist called Paul Faustino meets a new football personality to report on. From El Gato, the world's greatest goalkeeper and El Brujito, "the Little Magician", who has a mysterious past of corruption and murder, to nation football star, Otello, whose career gets destroyed under Paul's eyes, each character he meets has secrets that Paul must uncover...
This is the perfect series for fans of Football Books, and we'd recommend it to anyone who loved reading Kick or The Crossover.
All the Paul Faustino books in order:
Book 1: The Keeper (2012)
Book 2: Exposure (2012)
Book 3: The Penalty (2014)
This is one of the best books I have ever read. In impeccable details, El Gato tells us the thrilling story of how he got haunted by the spirit of the...
A truly amazing book, although it takes a little while to get into once you are hooked in you can't stop reading it. Definitely would recommend to any...