Book description
Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne
Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away
comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. He can feel his
life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue Parasite ...
until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in, blast the creature and save
him. They are the Supernaturalists, dedicated to ridding the world of
these life-sucking blue parasites. When they realise that Cosmo has the
ability to see these blue creatures too, they enlist him as one of them.
Their mission leads Cosmo into a world of high-level corruption, James
Bond type technology, thrilling adventure and finally back to a place
that Cosmo ever thought he'd have to return...the dreaded Clarissa
Frayne. Eoin Colfer followed his parents into teaching and soon began
to invent stories for his pupils. His first novel, BENNY AND OMER, was a
bestseller in Ireland - like ARTEMIS FOWL, it was written after a day's
teaching and after his young son's bedtime. Eoin lives in Wexford,
Ireland. ARTEMIS FOWL was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book
of the Year and won the WHSmith Children's Book of the Year Award.
