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…