• The Arctic Incident

  • Artemis Fowl, Book 2
  • By: Eoin Colfer
  • Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
  • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (4,724 ratings)

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The Arctic Incident

By: Eoin Colfer
Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
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Publisher's summary

Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia: his father. As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.
Listen to the entire Artemis Fowl series.
©2002 Eoin Colfer (P)2004 Random House, Inc., Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group

Critic reviews

  • Book Sense Book of the Year Award Finalist, Children's Literature, 2003

"The world Colfer creates is as vivid and fantastical as any shire, Gotham, or galaxy far, far away." (Entertainment Weekly)

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The Plot Thickens and Pulls You In

This is a great series and book 2 is great with deepening the characters and makeing connections. This is a fun book with an excellent narrator!

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A favorite series

This has always been a favorite series of mine and has translated well to an audio book.

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thoroughly enjoyed

Mr. Colfer is great at action sequences!
This book is a great sequel. Can't wait to hear the next!

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One of my favorites book series.

This one of my favorite book series. Disney didnt do Artemis right with its movie. Worst book to movie ever.

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Love it

I absolutely loved this book and the rest of the books, they are a portal to a new world for me.

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Fun Book Series, Nat Parker Makes It Fantastic

love the series, the character growth, the world building. Nat Parker is the king of Audiobooks, and I'm forever forgetting that it's not different people reading each character.

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The Frozen Tundra

The Artemis series is brilliant. Good writing, excellent story telling, and it never takes itself too seriously like so much fantasy does nowadays. Listen to them all!

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My Simple Thoughts

quite good...well writ...narrator very good. First 3 Fowl books are very good...falls off a bit after

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car rides

love these stories. I play then for the family on car rides so we can all listen.

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Audible app lets it down

This book is fun and the performance is great! The downside is that even though the book is split into 10+ chapters in the actual audio, the audible book is only split into 5 hour long chunks.

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