# Merde Happens

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- Book: [Merde Happens](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-clarke/merde-happens) ([Merde Happens.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-clarke/merde-happens.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Clarke](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-clarke)
- Publisher: Black Swan
- ISBN: 978-05-5277-352-2
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2008-03-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job: _________________ 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 ...