After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.
Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit.
Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl's only hope of saving his loyal bodyguard, Butler, is to employ fairy magic and contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short, to help him pull off the most brilliant criminal feat of his career.