Where the sun don’t shine

In 1969, an underground mine fire lit the fuse on a Pennsylvania town.In 2002, with the land scarred and virtually every house swept off the map, 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 nice 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.?Theres great poetry in slow decay, and Zimmermans 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 Dont Shine remind the reader that theres a real world out there, warts, sinkholes, sawed-off shotguns, and all. Go ahead, pull up a stool. Youll like what hes pouring.? --Matt Bean, Spike TVs "The Playbook"