This is BETRAYED, the controversial book by Bintell Powell, heard 20+ times as a BEST OF WENDY segment on the world famous WENDY WILLIAMS EXPERIENCE on WBLS’s 107.5.
This is BETRAYED by Bintell Powell, the author from the heated debates on the light & dark skinned conflicts which aired on BET's MEET THE FAITH hosted by Dr. IAN SMITH and on BETJ's My Two Cents...
HOWARD STERN said in his one on one interview with the author, "Bintell Powell has released and explosive book in BETRAYED!"
The only book on the planet that unleashes the true depths of
a Black man’s soul without shame!
“Deep! Forbidden! Climatic…Enter the Black man’s mind if you dare…
A Man’s diary, A Woman’s Nightmare!” –Heather Covington (DisilGoldSoul Literary Review)
SYNOPSIS
Bintell Powell has written BETRAYED to take you into a world where the rich and famous play. Bintell Powell, like most modern day alpha males, is obsessed with designer clothes, video vixens, VIP tables at celebrity filled parties where the paparazzi are sure to take you picture, fast cars and even faster women. Mark Christian breaks down all financial & social barriers at work, breaks the fast women he meets off in the kinkiest of places, and owe yeah, he breaks his long time girlfriend's heart completely as she is dying to become his wife. Bintell Powell tells you what you don't want to hear, while he exposes his own inner demons for all the world to see and judge, in order to bring you the truth of this deadly & seductive dilemma. He tells you why real black women are the last to be married, and first to be single mothers. He tells you what you know to be true, but choose to hide from. BETRAYED will break you heart. You will be entertained. You will be sexually tantalized. You will be horrified!
Bintell Powell, personified through a get-money at all cost/alpha male/corporate thug named Mark Christian in this semi-autobiography titled BETRAYED, is taking a serious chunk out of the Big Apple. He's also putting a serious dent in the power structure of the so-called "Master Race" in the Black community, those being light skinned black people. Mark Christian exposes the crimes of the "Black Bourgeoisie" as he takes the reader on his own journey to create a high end fashion/lifestyle magazine for the Internet called LIFESTYLISH.COM. The goal is to cash out for a few hundred million, but just before Bintell Powell succeeded, he realized that success turned him into exactly what is destroying him, and those who look as he does, those being dark skinned black people. The choices he was forced to make were deadly ones.
From the womb of corporate America, to the bowels of the "BLOCK", Bintell Powell via Mark Christian is destined to rule. If he can keep his "THUG" urges in check and stay two steps ahead of his enemies, he'll save his family and himself from sure destruction. At the same time, is Mark's insatiable libido simply summed up as a man will always be a dog, or is he chasing something that will ultimately destroy him? Is he chasing the same pot of gold that destroy so many other black men, before him, after him, his own father? Bintell Powell takes the reader through every aspect of the fast life in New York City, the money and fashion capital of the world, in intimate and detailed candor, and just when you thought BETRAYED was just another heartbreaking materialistic love story, you get the shock of your life.
It’s not too late.
READ BETRAYED TODAY!
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Success Despite Betrayal, November 27, 2007 ****/*
By Coulee Eidos "4YaSoul"
Bintell Powell's Betrayed brings the reader into the world of Mark Christian, a first generation Jamaican, whose main mission in life seems to be "gettin' paid." A tumultuous childhood, riddled with violence and childhood ridicule of his dark skin, drives him to achieve a social and monetary status in life that will have others envy him. This drive to so called success leads to a troubled young adulthood along the way.
Mark is on a quest to launch a website for the very wealthy consumer. If this website is a success, he will become a millionaire and will be able to leave his unfulfilling position as a sales executive from his everyday corporate "nine to five." His journey getting this lucrative venture underway almost drives him to the point of insanity. He has to deal with racial prejudice on his job, his insatiable appetite for sex from beautiful women that he thinks ordinarily would not give him the time of day and his family issues. He literally pays a high price from these hunger pains as he is spending money like he is already a millionaire. This drive to success brings out his dark side and he is unable on most days to see whether he is coming or going. He fears that he will go crazy like his uncles before him as he starts to feel like he can trust no one around him. Not his family, not his co-workers, not the many females he sleeps with and not even some of his closest friends from high school. Will his distrust of them all lead to failure of him being able to launch his website? Or will it leave him to learn to have faith in himself and to not look at his cultural Jamaican upbringing as a hindrance or as a mark as to who he can become? Will all this craziness cause him to lose the one person in his life that has not betrayed him?
I found this book to be a very good read. It has a few points where I would like to see this "realization" tied into the story a bit more. One thing that intrigued me about this book was the naming of the main character, Mark Christian. You see this strong character who is "marked" but is trying to attain a certain "highness/status" in life. Along this path he feels "marked" and yet has gentle qualities--one that is seeking to "redeem" himself in his own right. One that seeks to show himself worthy.
I give this one two thumbs up. The voice of Mark Christian rings loud and clear to the reader, bringing them into his existence as he feels it--definitely a page-turner!
Reviewed by Coulee Eidos
APOOO BookClub
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