In this remarkable work of fiction, the first by its author, a troubled young man - adopted as a teenager - flees his New Haven home days after his twenty-seventh birthday and travels to London then Amsterdam and finally to Nice where he infiltrates and manipulates the lives of Robert and Nicole, a young French couple.

"European Son: a novella" by Barry Stewart Levy is a beautifully crafted tale of obsession, revenge and redemption. The narrator is a nameless, existential protagonist on a journey of self-discovery. By the end of the story, we learn the disturbing truth behind his sudden...