Jazz is no hero, but she is a very good criminal. She’ll have to hatch a truly spectacular scheme to have a chance at staying alive and saving her city. Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, even Jazz has to admit she’s in way over her head. Because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself. She is an alcoholic, and refuses to do business with Artemis. Andy Weir’s best-selling novel The Martian told the nerve-wracking story of Mark Watney, an astronaut left behind on Mars (as played by Matt Damon in the film).In his new book, Artemis, Weir sends us into space again. Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. They meet with their contact, Nguyen, who leads them to her hiding spot, where she has been posing as a healer. The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thrillera heist story set on the moon. The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazz’s problems. The best-selling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller - a heist story set on the moon. In Chapter 1, twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl and his assistant Julius Butler are in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, looking for a fairy. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can’t handle, and she figures she’s got the ‘swagger’ part down. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosions-not to mention sheer brazen swagger. The new novel from Andy Weir, the author of the global bestselling novel The Martian which inspired the blockbuster film directed by Ridley Scott. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony.

So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can’t say no. Rich enough to pay off a debt she’s owed for a long time. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. It takes place in the late 2080s in Artemis, the first and so far only city on the Moon. The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller-a heist story set on the moon. Artemis is a 2017 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir.

Artemis a novel