When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

While preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank, Artemis Fowl has no idea that Opal Koboi has cloned herself and escaped from jail, leaving only Captain Holly Short of the LEPrechon fairy police to save Artemis before Opal seeks revenge on him.

While there is little in this world that bothers Artemis Fowl, in the fairy world Opal Koboi has gotten under his skin more than once. This time Opal has reanimated dead fairy warriors and their spirits have possessed Artemis' little brothers, making the siblings more annoying than usual. Artemis has until sunrise to get the spirits to vacate his brothers and go back into the earth.

When Artemis learns that his father has been kidnapped by the Russian mob, he races to the Arctic Circle to make a daring rescue where he finds an old acquaintance, Captain Holly Short, who is investigating a plot of the goblin mob.

After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.

Artemis Fowl, a twelve-year-old evil genius, travel back in time to make sure the lemurs do not go extinct so he can save his mother in the future from a deadly disease.