Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
First edition cover
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| Author | Eoin Colfer |
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| Translator | franche |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Series | Artemis Fowl series |
| Publisher | Puffin Books |
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30 April 2005 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback), Audiobook CD |
| Pages | 352 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 60343030 |
| Preceded by | The Eternity Code (2003) |
| Followed by | The Lost Colony (2006) |
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (known as Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception in Europe) is a teen fantasy novel published in 2005, the 4th book in the Artemis Fowl series by the Irish author Eoin Colfer. Preceded by Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code and followed by Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, it is centred on the brilliant pixie Opal Koboi's second try at rebellion (after her first attempt was a failure) and Artemis Fowl II and his fairy comrades' efforts to stop her. Critical reception was mixed, with some reviews praising the book but others pointing out confusion and poor writing. Artemis Fowl is not seen in the book as much as Opal Koboi.
The book begins with the pixie Opal Koboi faking a coma inside a hospital to avoid incarceration by the Lower Elements Police (LEP) after her failed rebellion and attempt of world domination (which took place in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident).
Opal Koboi, who had been under 24-hour surveillance, had DNA tests done every 4 hours, a seeker-sleeper planted in her arm (a device that can make the criminal faint, it also gives his/her position away) and had her in a net trapped with monitoring pads by the LEP to ensure that Opal was actually in the asylum cell, with help from the Brill Brothers manages to replace herself with a clone, which is identical to herself (the only difference being that the clone is brain dead).
Opal lures Commander Julius Root and Captain Holly Short of the LEP into a lava chute alone by putting General Scalene under the mesmer there. Koboi then kills Commander Root by using a 30 centimeter metal box packed with explosive gel and covered in stealth ore (framing Captain Holly Short as the murderer by blocking the LEP camera and changing the video to Holly shooting her commander), and launches a bio-bomb at Artemis Fowl, which fails to kill him and his bodyguard Domovoi Butler because Butler jumps from the three story hotel with Artemis.
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