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基本信息·出版社：Imprint unknown
·页码：461 页
·出版日期：2008年11月
·ISBN：0340935847
·条形码：9780340935842
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit). For a start, leprechaun technology is more advanced than our own. Add to that the fact that Holly is a true heroine and that her senior officer Commander Root will stop at nothing to get her back and you've got the mother of all sieges brewing!
作者简介 Eoin Colfer was born and raised in Wexford in the south-east of Ireland. He began writing plays at an early age and, as an adult, continued to write. ARTEMIS FOWL, his first book featuring the brilliant young anti-hero, was an immediate international bestseller and won several prestigious awards.
编辑推荐 Review Artemis is a 12-year-old technological whiz-kid, and the latest in a long line of Fowls, a family of Irish criminal masterminds. He has a cunning plan: having discovered that the little people really do exist, he intends to steal their fairy gold. He soon discovers that fairies are not, in fact, the fey, ethereal types of legend, but a hard-bitten and technologically advanced race with their own armed police force known as the Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance (or LEPrecon, for short - a typical Colvin pun). Artemis kidnaps LEPrecon Captain Holly Short - who has foolishly let her magic supplies run down - and uses her to bargain with the fairies. However, they don't give up that easily, and a fierce battle ensues, with mind-numbing technology in use on both sides. Soon other unearthly beings get involved, including huge rogue trolls and a dwarf with an ingenious burrowing technique. Told in slangy, direct language, with a fast-moving plot that demands serious concentration, this is a hilarious and exciting adventure tale which drags fairies and their ilk into the 21st century. Cryptographically-minded readers will also have fun deciphering the secret message that runs along the bottom of each page. (Kirkus UK)
In this sequel to Artemis Fowl (2001), the intellectual brilliance and total lack of scruples of the eponymous hero have enabled him to use his father's criminal empire to accumulate a vast fortune. Artemis utilizes this money to finance the search for his father, still missing two years after a disastrous and almost legitimate foray into Russia. Upon the receipt of an e-mailed picture, supposedly of his father, Artemis and his bodyguard, Butler, start the journey to Russia, only to be abducted by an old adversary Captain Holly Short, of the fairy police, LEPrecon. Holly and her commander erroneously suspect Artemis of masterminding a smuggling ring. The deal Artemis and Butler make with the LEPrecon officers (Artemis lends his brain to solve the smuggling puzzle; LEPrecon lends its advanced technology to the search for Fowl, Senior) leads to a series of major and minor disasters, which provide suspense and tension to this well-plotted story. Characterization is slight but amusing: Holly Short, first female captain in the LEPrecon is a feisty but warmhearted fairy, Foaly the centaur head of LEPrecon's technology department is brilliant if irascible, and the dwarf, Mulch, is hilarious, full of himself and of dwarf gas-don't ask. Filled with puns, word plays, and inventive new concepts about the fairy realm, this mix of fantasy and science fiction will delight fans and make converts of new readers. An exhilarating Celtic caper that stands very nicely indeed on its own merits. (Fiction. 11-14) (Kirkus Reviews)
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