Where the Sun Don't Shine

By Mike Zimmerman

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 he's pouring.” --Matt Bean, editor-in-chief, Men's Health

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Zimmerman
• Release date: Feb 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458125927

Mike Zimmerman

Mike Zimmerman is a graduate of Oakland University in Rochester Michigan where he studied History, Political Science, and Social Studies. He is a published author in Renaissance Magazine and likes to write both fiction and non fiction in his spare time.    Mike has moved near Phoenix Arizona with his wife, daughter, son, and the family dog Sonny. Some of his hobbies include coaching and playing basketball, sand volleyball leagues, watching movies, going to concerts, and “old school” video games.  

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