Book Preview Ériú; Present Day The Berserkers lay arranged in a spiral under the rune stone, looping down, down into the earth—boots out, heads in, as the spell demanded. Of course, after ten thousand years underground, there were no physical boots or heads. There was just the plasma of black magic holding their consciousness intact, … Read more
Book Preview Copyright © 2010 by Eoin Colfer All rights reserved. Published by Disney • Hyperion Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without … Read more
Book Preview Text copyright © 2008 by Eoin Colfer All rights reserved. Published by Disney • Hyperion Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, … Read more
Book Preview HAPPY was not a word often used to describe Artemis Fowl’s bodyguard. Jolly and contented were also words that were rarely applied to him or to people in his immediate vicinity. Butler did not get to be one of the most dangerous men in the world by chatting with anyone who happened to … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE This article was posted on the fairy Internet, on the site www.horsesense.gnom. It is believed that this site is maintained by the centaur Foaly, technical consultant to the Lower Elements Police, although this has never been proved. Almost every detail of the following account contradicts the official release from the LEP Press … Read more
Book Preview EXCERPT FROM Artemis Fowl’S DIARY. DISK 2. ENCRYPTED. FOR the past two years my business enterprises have thrived without parental interference. In this time, I have sold the Pyramids to a Western businessman, forged and auctioned off the lost diaries of Leonardo da Vinci and separated the fairy People from a large portion … Read more
Book Preview Artemis Fowl: A Psychological Assessment from “The Teenage Years” by Prof. J. Argon, Brotherhood of Psychologists Commissioned by the Lower Elements Police By the age of thirteen, our subject, Artemis Fowl, was displaying signs of an intellect greater than any human since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Artemis had beaten European chess champion Evan Kashoggi … Read more
Book Preview Sydney Harbour. Australia. ‘The thing about pain, Major Evergreen, said the old elf, laying a small wooden case on the table, ‘is that it hurts.’ Evergreen was still too groggy for jokes. Whatever the stranger had put in the dart was taking its time leaving his system. ‘What are you…? Why … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE How does one describe Artemis Fowl? Various psychiatrists have tried and failed. The main problem is Artemis’s own intelligence. He bamboozles every test thrown at him. He has puzzled the greatest medical minds, and sent many of them gibbering to their own hospitals. There is no doubt that Artemis is a child … Read more