Follow the adventures of "Germ", the book’s hero, a roguish, yet charming character, a dreamer lacking any real purpose in life until he suddenly becomes motivated, initially by greed.

Germ’s escapades in France find him turning small problems into bigger ones. Romance in the form of the lovely Eve presents him with both a challenge he finds impossible to resist as well as a quite shocking discovery of his own values.

As Peace Hotel progresses it comes alive through a host of surprising characters who become ensnared in a web that our hero never meant to weave.

This book tends to look at Germ through the eyes of the French who always know that the English are completely mad.