Holly and Artemis must find a way to bring Butler back from the dead and retrieve the lost Eternity Cube that could change the balance of power between humans and fairies forever. He calls on the only people he knows who might be able to get him back–Holly Short of the subterranean Fairy police and her race’s super-advanced technology. The cube may be lost but Artemis refuses to accept his friend’s demise and quickly deep freezes Butler in the restaurant kitchen. It is an ambush, and though Artemis escapes with his life, Butler is mortally wounded. In his latest eager attempt to make money, using a priceless futuristic cube of purloined Fairy gadgetry that can do just about anything, Artemis has underestimated Spiro and arrived at the rendezvous under-prepared. Following on from Artemis’s opening encounter with the fairy underworld in Artemis Fowl and its thumping sequel Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Encounter, The Eternity Code takes the books’ eponymous young anti-hero, who with each successive adventure turns out to be a little less bad after all, on his most dangerous mission yet.Īrtemis and his bodyguard Butler have set up a meeting in Chicago with dangerous international businessman Jon Spiro. The third instalment of high-tech, criminal whizz-kid adventures set in the fairy-magic-filled world of Master Artemis Fowl may be reassuringly familiar but it is also bulging with author Eoin Colfer’s trademark wit and thrilling seat-of-the-dwarf-pants adventure. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom but he’s taking on more than a bunch of fairies when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the Lep-Recon (lower elements police reconnaissance unit). Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history.

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