If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and the manuscript for THE BIG O.

Shut up, Julius! I mean, quiet a moment, Commander.

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky... from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework. “I know magic can be stolen,” said Artemis. “Because I stole some myself.