Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code

"Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code" is the third book in Irish fiction author Eoin Colfer's "Artemis Fowl" trilogy.

Warning: Spoilers follow

Table of contents

1 Characters 1.1 Humans 1.2 Fairies 2 Plot outline

Characters

Humans

• Artemis Fowl the Second, a brilliant thirteen-year-old boy and heir to the Fowl criminal empire - often referred to as the anti-hero
• Artemis Fowl the First, his father, who has just been rescued from the Russian Mafiya
• Angeline Fowl, Artemis II's mother
• Domovoi Butler, his bodyguard and loyal friend - usually known as 'Butler'
• Juliet Butler, Domovoi's little sister, training to be a bodyguard
• Jon Spiro, an American businessman in the communications field
• Arno Blunt, Spiro's bodyguard
• Pex and Chips, Spiro's muscle men

Fairies

• Holly Short, a young fairy working for the Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance division (LEPRecon)
• Commander Root, a fairy known as Beetroot for his red face, Holly's boss
• Foaly, genius centaur and LEP security designer
• Mulch Diggums, kleptomaniac dwarf, helping the LEP whether he likes it or not

Plot outline

During the first book in the trilogy, which is called simply Artemis Fowl, Butler disarmed a LEPRetrieval squad. Using the technology from their helmets, Artemis has built a tiny computer - the C Cube, the "cube that sees everything". He plans to show the C Cube to Jon Spiro. During their meeting, Spiro outwits Artemis by hiding assassins in the restaurant where they are having lunch. Butler sets off a fairy grenade, but Arno Blunt escapes and attacks Artemis. Butler takes the bullet and a long and heartwrenching death scene follows, during which Butler reveals his first name - Domovoi. However, Artemis isn't prepared to just let him go - he freezes Butler cryogenically until Holly arrives to heal him.

Then things get really crazy. The healing goes wrong and Butler is left mutilated, with Kevlar fibres embedded in his chest - and he's now fifteen years older. Now fifty-five, he is unable to fulfil his capacity as a bodyguard. His little sister takes over as humans and fairies mount a huge operation to get the C Cube away from Spiro before he uses it against the fairies, culminating in a dramatic, second-by-second engineered infiltration of Spiro's office block, the Spiro Needle, by Juliet, Holly and Mulch.