Root demands a mind-wipe of the three humans after the job is done, so Artemis leaves Butler in Ireland to ensure their memories survive. After a discussion with Root, who gives them 48 hours before he sends in a full Retrieval team, Artemis comes up with an elaborate plan to retrieve the Cube from Spiro's office in Chicago, involving the use of Holly, Mulch and Juliet. Although Mulch is rumbled, Loafers is incapacitated by Juliet, Butler's little sister, who has just returned from a failed final test at Madame Ko's Academy, where Butler trained to be a bodyguard. One of its employees is the dwarf Mulch Diggums, who is sent along with the thug Loafers to Fowl Manor to do the job. Jon Spiro, meanwhile, has commissioned a mob family from Chicago to capture Artemis to break the Cube's Eternity Code which prevents Spiro from accessing its software. Artemis reveals the Cube's existence to Holly and the LEPrecon's technical expert Foaly the centaur. The procedure saves Butler's life, but ages him approximately 15 years. She locates Artemis, who persuades her to revive Butler with fairy magic and the aid of cryogenics. In response, Commander Root sends Captain Holly Short to London to find what the disturbance was caused by. In the process, Butler, Artemis' bodyguard, is shot by one of Spiro's staff, Arno Blunt.Īrtemis' demonstration of the Cube inadvertently detects Fairy technology below ground, causing a shutdown of all equipment in Haven city.

However, Spiro ambushes and outwits Artemis and steals the Cube. Fowl meets Chicago businessman Jon Spiro in London to show him the Cube, in an attempt to buy a considerable amount of gold in exchange for keeping the technology off the market. It far surpasses any human technology made so far. Critical response was generally favourable.Īrtemis Fowl II, the 13-year-old criminal mastermind, has created a supercomputer which he calls the 'C Cube', from the stolen fairy LEPrecon helmets confiscated by Butler in the siege of Fowl Manor. The storyline follows Artemis Fowl and his companions as they struggle to recover the ' C Cube', a supercomputer Artemis had constructed from fairy technology, when Jon Spiro manages to steal it. It is preceded by Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident and followed by Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. Print (hardback & paperback), Audiobook CDĢ-9 (first edition, hardback) 0141321318 (third edition, paperback)Īrtemis Fowl and the Eternity Code (known in America as Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code) is the third book of Irish children's fiction author Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series.

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