Colfers (Benny and Omar) crime caper fantasy, the first in a series, starts off with a slam-bang premise. To coincide with the release of the long awaited Artemis Fowl feature film, here is a paperback boxed set of the first three books in the series with stunningly redesigned covers. Artemis has to agree to a memory-erasing 'mind wipe' from the People after helping them recover their technology, but only a foolish fan would count Artemis out after this blockbuster 'final heist.' Book four can't come soon enough. Talk Miramax Books, 16.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-7868-0801-4. Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series has enjoyed phenomenal worldwide success and has sold more than nine million copies in the United States alone. Colfer's young antihero might be getting more likeable all the time, but that hasn't taken the edge off the Tom-Clancy-meets-Harry-Potter action. Artemis Fowl is a series of eight science fiction fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, featuring the titular character, Artemis Fowl II. The dialogue and action prove as smart and page-turning as ever this time around, with Artemis struggling to bring his faithful bodyguard Butler back from the dead before racing Mission Impossible-style to triple-cross the double-crossing Spiro. The once hard-boiled Artemis has softened a bit between his bestselling debut and the seat-of-your-pants Arctic Incident, and that trend continues in The Eternity Code: He's still plotting for a billion-dollar-plus payoff for the Fowl family, but now his enemies are human (chiefly Jon Spiro, a ruthless businessman Artemis tries to blackmail using stolen fairy technology) and he has to turn to his old adversary-turned-friend Captain Holly Short and cutpurse dwarf Mulch Diggums for help.

In this third installment to Eoin Colfer's funny, fast-paced, fairy-filled adventure series, boy genius and arch criminal Artemis Fowl once again can't resist plotting the perfect crime-and, once again, he can't keep from stirring up so much trouble that the fate of the entire fairy world teeters in the balance.

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