Merde Happens Author:Stephen Clarke What happens when an Englishman, an American and a Frenchwoman drive across the USA in a Mini? — Paul West goes West....Englishman Paul West is in deep financial merde. — His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a Mini while pretending to be typically British. — Also in the car is Paul's Frenc... more »h girlfriend, Alexa, and his American friend Jake, whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world. Preferably in the back of Paul's Mini.
But as the little car battles from New York to Miami, and then heads west, leg-room turns out to be the least of Paul's troubles. His work is being sabotaged, his tour plans are in tatters, and his love life becomes a Franco-American war zone.
And as Paul knows better than anyone, when you mix love and war---merde happens....
This book was published in the UK in 2007. It is due to be published in hardcover in the US in the summer of 2008 and there are already several wishers for it prior to publication!« less