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|title=The Merde Factor

|sort=Merde Factor, The

|publisher=Century

|date=September 2012

|summary=The fifth in this series shows little sign of failing to amuse, as life gets even worse for Our Man in Paris.

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Meet, if you haven't already, Paul West. Before now we've had four chances to meet him and see his struggles with all things French – their cuisine, their language, their social life and their bureaucracy – in order to run an English-styled tea-room in the trendier side of Paris. Four books then, and we might have expected him to have settled down into some form of success – were it not for the fact this is a comedy series. But no, he seems to still be in France on borrowed time, on borrowed (or sub-let) land, and things are certainly not turning out tres belle for him.