The dragon in question, Vern (short for “Wyvern, Lord Highfire”), believes he is the last of his kind and lives in secret deep in the swamp. When Squib sees something he shouldn’t late at night out on the water and Hooke goes after him with a grenade launcher, Squib suddenly finds himself being rescued by a dragon. Elodie and Squib both get the feeling that Hooke is something more dangerous than a sleazy cop, and they’re right: He’s murderous, corrupt, and out to take over the local drug-running business. His kindhearted single mother, Elodie, works long hours as a nurse, and when she’s not worrying about what her son is up to, she’s fighting off the advances of the local constable, Regence Hooke. The Artemis Fowl Files (a companion book) is dedicated to 'Finn, Artemis's best friend.' Finn is the surname of the main character of The Wish List, and also a false surname that gets used by the main character of Airman.An accident-prone teenage boy named Squib forms an unlikely friendship with a dragon living in a Louisiana bayou.Stefan Bashkir, a major character in The Supernaturalist, is also an alias used by Artemis Fowl.Myishi is a character in The Wish List and also a corporation in The Supernaturalist.Phonetix is a large corporation that's mentioned in both the Artemis Fowl series and The Supernaturalist.

Mythology Gag: His books have a few recurring names:.If he writes a sci-fi book with highly advanced technology, chances are it will feature intelligent gel/liquid metal/liquid-like arrays of nanites and it will usually be the top-notch tech of the setting.Author Tract: Environmentalism is very important to him, thus his driving it into reader's skulls in every book he writes.Tropes of which Eoin Colfer is found guilty: Rowling, and like the Harry Potter books, his Artemis Fowl series has been used to benchmark and compare other authors.Īnd he's from Ireland (specifically, Wexford), hence the Irish spelling of his name.Ĭolfer's works include, but are not limited to: A very capable author, he has been compared to J. Eoin Colfer (born ) is an Irish author, most famous for his Artemis Fowl books.

The reluctant assassin by eoin colfer