Russian billionaire Dmitri Tupolev and a mystery Englishman agree to fix an important match in Russia's favour by intimidating the England goalie, Alex Finn. But Alex goes against their wishes. His punishment: an 'accidental' car crash and he's out of the return game in Russia.

Something is going on with England's replacement goalie, and Danny soon finds himself caught up with the criminals of the footballing underworld. Will he unravel the match-fixing mystery?

This book features in the following series: Football Detective, Foul Play .

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Tom Palmer is the author of 48 books featuring spies, history, the RAF, ghosts, detectives, war, formula 1, football and rugby. He is the winner of the Solihull and Leicester children's book awards and was shortlisted for the prestigious Blue Peter Book Award. Tom lives in Yorkshire with his wife, daughter, dog and cat.