Artemis Fowl
core novel 2001 Artemis Fowl
Record
| First published | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.86 (565,855 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 288 |
| First-edition ISBN | 0-7868-0801-2 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II, heir to a family with generations of criminal enterprise behind it, sets out with his bodyguard and confidant Butler to locate and steal a copy of the fairies' sacred Book, the key to understanding their magic and technology. Having decoded enough of the Book to identify a vulnerable target, Artemis captures LEPrecon Captain Holly Short, an elf officer of the fairies' underground police force, and holds her for a ransom of gold, intending to use the payment to restore his family's fortune after his father's disappearance and his mother's decline. As fairy forces mobilize to recover Holly and stop Artemis, both sides are drawn into an escalating standoff between human cunning and fairy technology.
Where it sits
- Universe: Artemis Fowl
- Series: Artemis Fowl core; position 1 of 8 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Eoin Colfer
Notes
- From the series record (Artemis Fowl): The eight-book main sequence, published 2001-2012, following twelve-year-old criminal prodigy Artemis Fowl II from his first encounter with the hidden fairy world through to the series' conclusion.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Artemis Fowl: position 1 of 8: next Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident (2002)
Sources
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