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The Goalkeeper
“Lose the game,” she said. “Lose the game or everyone dies.”
A wave of euphoria is sweeping across the British Kingdom. Differences have been set aside and people are bound together by their devotion to the Guiding Principles of Joy and Compassion and their love for the Great Unifier – football.
The whole world wants to be a part of it, but for Josh Pittman, the world is a place he feels he doesn’t fit in. Bored, listless and somehow immune to the sporting paradise around him, he can’t even muster the enthusiasm to play in goal for his local team.
But when a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman leaves him with a broken nose, a stolen car and a warning that humanity is under attack from a hidden race of supernatural beings, Josh thinks he may have found his purpose in life – and someone to share it with. The only question is, what has any of it got to do with him?
As the final of the grandest international tournament in history looms and strange deaths at stadiums across the globe go unreported, Josh is whisked away on a journey through time and space to uncover the truth behind mankind’s very existence – and the role he is destined to play in what might just be the world's worst case of mistaken identity...
A wave of euphoria is sweeping across the British Kingdom. Differences have been set aside and people are bound together by their devotion to the Guiding Principles of Joy and Compassion and their love for the Great Unifier – football.
The whole world wants to be a part of it, but for Josh Pittman, the world is a place he feels he doesn’t fit in. Bored, listless and somehow immune to the sporting paradise around him, he can’t even muster the enthusiasm to play in goal for his local team.
But when a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman leaves him with a broken nose, a stolen car and a warning that humanity is under attack from a hidden race of supernatural beings, Josh thinks he may have found his purpose in life – and someone to share it with. The only question is, what has any of it got to do with him?
As the final of the grandest international tournament in history looms and strange deaths at stadiums across the globe go unreported, Josh is whisked away on a journey through time and space to uncover the truth behind mankind’s very existence – and the role he is destined to play in what might just be the world's worst case of mistaken identity...
490 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 11, 2022
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About the author
Sean White
1 book1 followerI was born and raised in Ashford, Kent and studied theatre production at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. I have worked in tourism for much of my career, including as a tour guide at the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) in the Palace of Westminster, while writing in my spare time. I live with my wife and son in the Cotswolds.
The Goalkeeper is my first novel.
The Goalkeeper is my first novel.
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April 30, 2024
Great time travel novel set in the unique (for the genre) environment of football (soccer).
Spoiler free commentary: The use of a sports thematic thread enabled the book to be free of the usual time travel tropes as the world building for the story would have been enough in its own right for a book. There are some of the usual conundrums brought up that any time travel tale has to include as rule setting, but these are brought out as story elements rather than a tempo breaking explainer. I particularly enjoyed a small semi-Chekhov's gun call back!
Looking forward to the next one!
Spoiler free commentary: The use of a sports thematic thread enabled the book to be free of the usual time travel tropes as the world building for the story would have been enough in its own right for a book. There are some of the usual conundrums brought up that any time travel tale has to include as rule setting, but these are brought out as story elements rather than a tempo breaking explainer. I particularly enjoyed a small semi-Chekhov's gun call back!
Looking forward to the next one!
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