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.