Thibault thinks he’s meeting up with his eccentric uncle Henry for a European road trip before starting at Oxford University. Henry, though, has other plans. Hours after arriving in London, Thibault is an accomplice to the blackmail and kidnapping of the CEO of a major mining company. And he’s met his cousin Venus, a dazzling seventeen-year-old poet from Boston, who will stop at nothing to ‘bring down capitalism.’ And so begins an adventure across Europe – from London to Luxembourg to glittering hotels in the South of France, Thibault embarks with Henry and Venus on a mission that will change him, his family (and maybe the corporate world) forever. A story of love and activism in the Europe of today, The Venus Zone won the Luxembourg National Literature Competition in 2016.