The Eternity Code

In the third Artemis Fowl installment, the 13-year-old criminal mastermind takes on his most cunning adversary yet — American billionaire Jon Spiro, owner of the high-tech firm Fission Chips. While recuperating Artemis Fowl’s father, AF Senior, stuns all with his pronouncement that he wants the family to turn over a new leaf and stay on the right side of the law. Not surprisingly, Artemis has other plans for one last heist, after which the Fowls will become a law-abiding family. Artemis had been planning the job long before his father’s conversion to all things legal. Artemis’s scheme to extract one metric ton of gold from Spiro, in exchange for keeping the C Cube, a mega computer built from parts stolen from the fairies, off the market, implodes spectacularly. To save Butler, his bodyguard, and set things right in the fairy world, Artemis joins forces with Butler’s sister Juliet and drafts the help of his nemesis Captain Holly Short, Foaly the computer nerd, and the dwarf Mulch Diggums. The story culminates in a climactic break-in at Chicago’s Spiro Needle, delivering action and suspense that fans of the series will enjoy.