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The story of Thugg begins atop Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, where his perfectly preserved frozen body is
discovered after 12,000 years in the ice. The ancient African is transported to the prestigious Yancey
University in Massachusetts for study, where the head of the Bio-engineering department announces that it is
possible to restore him to life utilizing the emerging new science of microrobotics called nanotechnology.
Setting this mind-boggling enterprise into motion, it is quickly realized by the university staff that the
Kilimanjaroan is unprepared to cope with the shocking circumstances of his resurrection and the realities he
faces in 21st Century.

Thugg is deeply distrustful of white people, having never seen one in his original lifetime, and thus is paired
with the head of YU’s Psychology Department, a brilliant African American named Dr. Quantez Phillips, and
his best friend and colleague, Dr. Ruthenia Haynes, head of the Language Department. Together they set out
to prove that they can teach this “caveman” to become a thinking and productive member of modern-day
society. They succeed beyond their wildest imaginations.

As Thugg’s language skills become increasingly sophisticated, he reveals that he was born a barbarian and
ruled as the king of a vast, now extinct African empire. His saga intrigues and inspires all of humanity,
especially African Americans, who hold him up as proof that blacks can achieve any goal they set their minds
upon. Thugg becomes a global celebrity—a cross between Dr. Martin Luther King and Tupac Shakur. As he
becomes increasingly cognizant of the dire plight of the black race, he invokes his royal roots and uses his
status to speak out for revolution—a call that has the potential to dramatically alter race relations across the
planet, for better or worse, forever.

The epic saga plays out against the backdrop of the convoluted love triangle that erupts between Thugg, Dr.
Haynes and Dr. Phillips, whose homosexuality is a closely guarded secret. Haynes’ and Phillips’ deep
friendship is jeopardized as the two academicians battle each other for Thugg’s affections. And thus, the
story examines the paramount issue of homophobia, as well as racism, sexism, ethics, drug and celebrity
culture, and the prison/industrial complex, from the unique perspective of an ancient African 12 millennia
misplaced from the time period of his birth.

Born a barbarian. Died a king. Resurrected as legend. Destined to conquer.

The 21st Century Chronicles of Thugg the Barbarian King is a homoerotic ghetto love story between the three
most unexpected characters of all time—the latest stunning literary event from the unique bipolar mind of
Brent Dorian Carpenter.
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Bald Ambition is a potpourri of ideas, essays, writing styles and assorted madness representing a unique
voice of black gayness regurgitated from the ghetto bowels of Detroit.

Brent’s Fagenda and Brent Reloaded
From 2001 through 2004, the outrageous, thought-provoking, award-winning column in the Detroit-based
Between The Lines newspaper chronicled the life of the writer struggling to cope with the everyday freak
shows and fallacies of being black, gay, HIV-positive and bipolar in America. Includes such classic essays
as “Dreading the Term ‘N-Word’ More than the Word Itself,” “C’mon, Baby, Let Me Just Stick the Head In,” “In
Search of the Perfect Orgy,” “When the Bottom Falls Out of the Market,” “Girl, He Tore my Guts Out,” and
“When are You Queens Going to Let Go of Astrology??”

Historically Black, Historically Gay
40 short bios and beautifully rendered drawings of black gay historical figures, including Barbara Jordan,
George Washington Carver, Angela Davis, Bayard Rustin, Billie Holiday, Benjamin Banneker and many
more!

Black Pride Diaries
A snapshot of the Black Gay Pride circuit as witnessed by the writer during three summers of book tours!

Verse Perverse
A twisted collection of five very naughty black gay erotic fantasies, including the unspeakably blunt “Prisoners
of Lust!”

Don’t miss out on this groundbreaking latest work from the up-and-coming writer of the electrifying novels
Man of the Cloth, This Time Around, and The 21st Century Chronicles of Thugg the Barbarian King!
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Terry Montgomery Tarrant was a typical angst-riddled African American teenager balancing a lot of heavy
baggage on his plate. At the tender age of 18, he had already survived a devastating nervous breakdown
brought about by bipolar disorder and was struggling to come to grips with his emerging sexual identity.
These problems would soon prove to be the least of his worries.

Approached in Philosophy class one day by his mysterious octogenarian professor G. Trent Monterrey, he
was challenged to articulate what changes he might effect if he could travel freely through time. With some
prodding, the ever-thoughtful youth decided that he would wield such awesome power in the service of the
long-tormented black race—specifically, he would travel back into the 14th Century to attempt to prevent the
atrocities of slavery from taking place. Imagine Terry’s surprise when Monterrey, a bitter black racist with a
hate-filled taste for the ultimate revenge, presents to his burgeoning accomplice the time sphere, a temporal
anomaly capable of sidereally transporting the duo centuries in either direction through the timestream.

What havoc might they wreak as they jaunt from the Civil Rights Movement to the Civil War and
Reconstruction to Columbus’ voyage of discovery and beyond—to the pre-European days of medieval Africa
itself? What new reality might they craft as they seek to undo 600 years of murder and injustice? And what
mind-numbing secrets are possessed by the professor, who holds the key to the future of all humankind in
his gnarled hands?

This time around, history is going to be radically different than anything you’ve ever seen in the past.
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When a catastrophic plane crash wipes out the pope and the upper hierarchy of the Catholic Church,
plunging the Holy Sea into turmoil, a desperate Vatican cardinal named Attanasio Calabrese teams with the
unscrupulous geneticist Dr. Wilmut Gunther Jung to conspire to create a clone of the messiah Jesus Christ
from the divine blood on the holy relic the Shroud of Turin. As word of their creation becomes public
knowledge, the entire world is bitterly divided over the question of whether this second Jesus is the true Lord
resurrected, or the quintessential blasphemy against God. While chaos engulfs the planet, it is the
unshakably pious Monsignor Sean Patrick Mourning and the cynical Washington Times reporter Jasmine
Bassett who alone set out to prove or disprove the divinity of the clone once and for all.

MAN OF THE CLOTH is the story that dares to propose the ultimate definition of faith: what do you believe
and why do you believe it?
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