Artemis Fowl tells the tale of a twelve-year-old genius, a criminal mastermind who wants to acquire fairy gold in order to replenish his family's fortunes. Bringing together both the human and fairy worlds, Colfer writes about Artemis's quest for the gold and how the fairies try to prevent him from gaining their riches.

Artemis travels to Ho Chi Minh City with his manservant, Butler, to meet with an informant about the Book, which tells about the history of the fairies and spells out their rules and regulations for behavior. Led to a sprite, Artemis tricks her into letting him look at her Book for thirty minutes. Butler takes a photo of each page so that they can decipher it later. Back in Ireland at Fowl Manor, Artemis tries various means to decode the pages. He finally figures out the language of the book. Artemis is also...