Prologue and Chapters 1-4 Summary

Artemis Fowl is the son of a reformed leader of an organized crime syndicate and has grown up emulating his father's actions and making dangerous deals of his own. Some of these deals have caused Artemis to come in contact with a secret fairy world living beneath the human world.

In the Prologue, Artemis has recently come back from Limbo, a trip that caused him to lose three years in the real world although for him only a few short weeks have passed. For this reason, Artemis appears to still be fourteen even though he should be seventeen. Artemis has also returned to discover his parents now have two-year-old twins, Miles and Beckett.

In Chapter 1, Artemis is in the study with his twin brothers, trying to teach them advanced things such as French, but not making much...