Friday, April 24, 2009

Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception


Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception Option 6

Eoin Colfer Penguin Books Puffin Group 2005


Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception is the fourth book in the Artemis Fowl series created by Eoin (pronounced Owen) Colfer. Eoin Colfer has also written other books such as; The Wishlist, The Supernaturalist and Airman. His books has sold more than 18,000,000 copies around the world. This book tells the story of a teenage boy named Artemis Fowl who is a criminal mastermind and has intellect way beyond any ordinary human as him and his butler, "Butler" discover their nemesis Opal Koboi, who is an evil pixie, has awoken from her coma and has escaped from a Rehabilitation center with two other sprites who helped her escape, called the "Brill Brothers." Opal's plan is to use a satelite created from an Italian environmentalist named Giovanni Zito were her plan will cause the fairies in Haven to find the mud people (Humans) in Earth which will create a human/fairy species war, were the humans have advanced technology were they will cause the fairy population to diminish and become extinct. She plans this because she hates the fairy race because they sent her to custody. She also killed Captain Holly's commander, Julius Root, which now everyone accuses Holly that she murdered him due to the fact of a videotape created by Opal. Now Captain Holly Short has a mission to ask the person that fairies and creatures from Haven are forbidden to talk to and that person is... the one! the only! the person that kidnapped Captain Holly for ransom in the first place, "Artemis Fowl!" Can the combined skills of Artemis's intellect, Captain Holly's leadership skills, Butler's strength and Mulch Diggums pouting, digging and tunneling save the fairies population and send Opal and the Brill Brothers to jail? and can Holly be cleared of her charges for the accusation of murdering her commander? or will Opal Koboi's plan will come true and the humans will be responisible for murdering a species that have done nothing to them.