About the Book
In 1969, an underground mine fire lit the fuse on a Pennsylvania town.
Thirty years later, the few who remain in this desolate, lawless place will discover something there worth a fight... Gunther Gott is a dive bartender at the last business operating in town. He has few friends. He's in love with a girl who doesn't exactly second the emotion. He's accomplished nothing in this life except how to achieve the perfect "pour," and doesn't see a whole lot of reasons to push beyond that. But there are others in town who want to take what little he has. A single gunshot will put him on a new path.
A second gunshot will push him down it. And when Gunther realizes the truth about this long-dead town, he will become the one man nobody expects defending the one place nobody wants. And doing it for the best reason: Payback. "There's great poetry in slow decay, and Zimmerman's eye for texture finds fertile ground in the crumbling, anthracite coal underbelly of this fictional PA town. In a world of pre-fab reality TV shows and silicone everything, the characters in Where the Sun Don't Shine remind the reader that there's a real world out there, warts, sinkholes, sawed-off shotguns, and all. Go ahead, pull up a stool. You'll like what Zim's pouring." - Matt Bean, former editor-in-chief, Entertainment Weekly Warning: Contains violence, profanity, sexual content, and adult themes.
About the Author: Mike Zimmerman is a bestselling writer and editor in the media business for nearly 30 years. He's held executive and senior level editorial positions at some of the biggest magazine and book publishing brands in the world. He's written in virtually every fiction and nonfiction genre there is (except western, but anything can happen). In fiction, he's the author of 18 novels and dozens of shorter works. His most recent novels, A Mosquito Over Sunset and Where the Sun Don't Shine, are available at all major booksellers in print and ebook. His 11 young adult novels, written under various names, span horror, romance, action-adventure, espionage, and romantic suspense. His short fiction has garnered multiple honorable mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series. Three mini-collections of his short stories, Dark & Twisted, Dark & Looney, and Dark & Angry are available as ebooks at all major book retailers. In nonfiction, Mike is a nationally known health and fitness author, and an award-winning finance writer. Hundreds of his profiles, service journalism features, essays, and humor pieces have appeared in Men's Health, Weight Watchers, Women's Health, Best Life, Success, O: The Oprah Magazine, CBSMoneyWatch.com, Interior Design, Redbook, Glamour, and USA Weekend. Mike has interviewed more than 100 public figures and written 50+ celebrity cover stories. His profiles include elite athletes (LeBron James, Derek Jeter, Tom Brady), A-list actors (Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Scarlett Johanssen), and many other personalities across business, music, sports, and entertainment. He's gone running in the mountains of central Mexico with Matthew McConaughey, fishtailing down Sunset Boulevard in an Audi with Jason Statham, and been smuggled onto a Christopher Nolan set courtesy of Hugh Jackman. He is also the author or co-author, credited and uncredited, of 13 nonfiction books, including The Athlete's Book of Home Remedies, The Men's Health Big Book of Food & Nutrition, and The Impact Body Plan. Contact him at zimwrites@gmail.com
