Drop into the deep south with all its trimmings—lightnin’ bugs, heart-wrenching twisted love, bizarre burials and desperate murders. In the beginning and in the end you will foster a tender heart for these characters. Seedy yet insightful, this tale winds through the back halls of the mind and heart inside a hard core iron gym, and its star player, a big time, small town steroid junkie.
“Knowing nothing about the world of elite weightlifting or body-building, I was instantly hooked by this book, and could not put it down. It is an insider’s story about the ‘sex, drugs, rock & roll’ side of physical culture.
S. Jaen Black is a current master’s world record holder in the sport of Olympic weightlifting. She takes readers on an authoritative tour of a world that few outsiders even suspect exists.
As a writer, Jaen is a kindred spirit of the late, great Tennessee Williams, and does for the world of weightlifting what John Steinbeck did for Cannery Row.” —North West Literary Review
