Stephen Clarke 
Merde Happens 
Hell is an American road trip with a French passenger

Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job:
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It involves him touring America in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British.
Also in the car is Paul »s French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet 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, 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…