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"Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code" is the third book in Irish fiction author Eoin Colfer's "Artemis Fowl" trilogy.
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
- 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 sound grenade, knocking the assasins unconsciouss, but Arno Blunt is unaffected by the greande, having put in ear plugs, 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 fifteen years older. Now fifty-five, he is unable to fulfil his capacity as a bodyguard. His little sister, Juliet Butler 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 Diggums.
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