Artemis Fowl has discovered a fairy race living below ground. He has extorted gold from them and the fairy police have been on his tail for supplying power cells to the goblin gangs. But that's not the half of it. The Russian Mafiya are holding his father to ransom in the Arctic Circle and only Artemis's bodyguard, Butler, stands between him and an evil pixie. An explosive sistuation threatens the entire fairy civilistation, Artemis realizes that even a wicked genius needs help sometimes. And it can come from the most unlikely quarters ...