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A Clean Up Man
Kraig Holmes is a hard-working independent contractor living in Baltimore. He's an average guy--with one exception. A painful secret haunts him daily. Kraig had a one-time sexual experience with a man he knew little about. It propelled him into a lifestyle of promiscuity and an insatiable appetite for dangerous sex. When the guy disappeared into thin air, Kraig was left hurt and devastated.
Now Kraig has developed a taste for the married men who pursue him while he's working on their homes. When his sexual escapades spiral out of control and out into the open, he quickly tries to get things under wraps. Then the unexpected happens--a chance encounter with his one night stand from college. Kraig is hurt when he discovers the man doesn't even remember him.
Kraig vows to set up the man who turned him out and disappeared. What Kraig doesn't know is that his "victim" isn't the lay-down-and-take-it type. He has a few cards up his sleeve that will deliver damaging blows to Kraig's life. When it's all said and done, the truth with be revealed, and there will be consequences.
M.T. Pope delivers another hot, scandalous tale full of lust, infidelity, and over-the-top drama.
Now Kraig has developed a taste for the married men who pursue him while he's working on their homes. When his sexual escapades spiral out of control and out into the open, he quickly tries to get things under wraps. Then the unexpected happens--a chance encounter with his one night stand from college. Kraig is hurt when he discovers the man doesn't even remember him.
Kraig vows to set up the man who turned him out and disappeared. What Kraig doesn't know is that his "victim" isn't the lay-down-and-take-it type. He has a few cards up his sleeve that will deliver damaging blows to Kraig's life. When it's all said and done, the truth with be revealed, and there will be consequences.
M.T. Pope delivers another hot, scandalous tale full of lust, infidelity, and over-the-top drama.
271 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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About the author
M.T. Pope
20 books90 followersAuthor M.T. Pope hit the literary scene in the Fall of 2009 with a knockout debut novel titled Both Sides of The Fence through the Publisher Urban Books/Kensington Books. M.T. Pope's thoughts of his first work of fiction are that of edginess, exploration, but effectiveness in getting people's attention on widely overlooked social issues.
Both Sides of the Fence was also pegged as shockingly realistic and over the top by his editor, publisher and many, many readers. Deeply filled with drama, suspense and graphic scenes, Both Sides of the Fence is a novel that doesn't disappoint the reader. M.T. Pope goes on record to say that with his first book 'either you're going to love it or hate it. There's no in between'. He doesn't get disappointed when a reader says 'it was too much' for them. He understands that not everyone will like it or finish it.
He continued his literary career and penned Both Sides of The Fence 2 & 3, which were released in 2010 & 2011. These two novels were just as successful as the first novel, even with a little less rawness within. Each one these have different plots and messages, but all are conjoined to hold a larger, impacting message; the message of communication, faith, family, struggle and cohesiveness as a unit.
In the spring of 2011 M.T. Pope was approached by bestselling author, Anna J to be including in an exciting anthology entitled Erotic Snapshots which was released that May and continues to be successful.
In the early summer of 2011 M.T. Pope was approached by his publisher for participation in an anthology entitled Don't Ask, Don't Tell. It was centered on the now repelled law by the same name. Again, M.T. Pope tactless the issue like only he can; Drama, suspense and ultimately, resolution. That work of fiction was released in the spring of 2012 and is successful as well.
At the end of 2011 M.T. Pope released his first independent selection; an e-reader short story entitled Don't Drop The Soap. He also completed his fourth full length novel, A Clean Up Man released in Fall 2012
In late Winter M.T. Pope gathered together three new and aspiring writers and presented another anthology titled Boys Will Be Boys in March 2012. The following month of May he released another novella entitled Stick Up Boys, which is his semi-street life based fiction. It remains one of his favorite works of fiction to date. M.T. Pope also began work on two short novellas entitled, Lost Pages of Both Sides of the Fence 1 & 2 of which Vol. 1 is being positioned for release in the late Fall 2012. He has also begun completion on his next full length novel, May the Best Man Win, to be released in 2013. New novel and story ideas are always popping into his head, during conversation or simple observing people. New and exciting things are in the future. He hopes that you will join him there.
His works of fiction has been seen in XXL Magazine, recommended in Carl Weber's novel Big Girls Do Cry and The Man in 3B. He's done numerous phone interviews, blog talk shows and e-magazine interviews.
M.T. Pope, is a born and raised Baltimorean. He was born into a large family with nine brothers and sisters. He's worked as a landscaper, movie theater concessions worker, an over the counter medication manager for Wal-Mart, pharmacy technician for Wal-Mart and a bookstore manager for Urban Knowledge Bookstores.
M.T. Pope loves to eat and cook. He enjoys action movies and getting a good night's sleep. He is an introvert by nature, but his writing speaks otherwise. He likes to write the drama but living it is for other. He likes meeting new people and getting in a good, meaningful, and enlightening conversation with strangers. He feels like he can learn anything from anyone given the opportunity, even if it's what not to do. He can be reached at the outlets.
Email: chosen_97@yahoo.com, mondellpope@gmail.com
Websites: www.Facebook.com/authormtpope
www.Twitter.com/mtpope
www.Instagram.com/mtpope
www.wix.com/mtpope/mtpope
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Both Sides of the Fence was also pegged as shockingly realistic and over the top by his editor, publisher and many, many readers. Deeply filled with drama, suspense and graphic scenes, Both Sides of the Fence is a novel that doesn't disappoint the reader. M.T. Pope goes on record to say that with his first book 'either you're going to love it or hate it. There's no in between'. He doesn't get disappointed when a reader says 'it was too much' for them. He understands that not everyone will like it or finish it.
He continued his literary career and penned Both Sides of The Fence 2 & 3, which were released in 2010 & 2011. These two novels were just as successful as the first novel, even with a little less rawness within. Each one these have different plots and messages, but all are conjoined to hold a larger, impacting message; the message of communication, faith, family, struggle and cohesiveness as a unit.
In the spring of 2011 M.T. Pope was approached by bestselling author, Anna J to be including in an exciting anthology entitled Erotic Snapshots which was released that May and continues to be successful.
In the early summer of 2011 M.T. Pope was approached by his publisher for participation in an anthology entitled Don't Ask, Don't Tell. It was centered on the now repelled law by the same name. Again, M.T. Pope tactless the issue like only he can; Drama, suspense and ultimately, resolution. That work of fiction was released in the spring of 2012 and is successful as well.
At the end of 2011 M.T. Pope released his first independent selection; an e-reader short story entitled Don't Drop The Soap. He also completed his fourth full length novel, A Clean Up Man released in Fall 2012
In late Winter M.T. Pope gathered together three new and aspiring writers and presented another anthology titled Boys Will Be Boys in March 2012. The following month of May he released another novella entitled Stick Up Boys, which is his semi-street life based fiction. It remains one of his favorite works of fiction to date. M.T. Pope also began work on two short novellas entitled, Lost Pages of Both Sides of the Fence 1 & 2 of which Vol. 1 is being positioned for release in the late Fall 2012. He has also begun completion on his next full length novel, May the Best Man Win, to be released in 2013. New novel and story ideas are always popping into his head, during conversation or simple observing people. New and exciting things are in the future. He hopes that you will join him there.
His works of fiction has been seen in XXL Magazine, recommended in Carl Weber's novel Big Girls Do Cry and The Man in 3B. He's done numerous phone interviews, blog talk shows and e-magazine interviews.
M.T. Pope, is a born and raised Baltimorean. He was born into a large family with nine brothers and sisters. He's worked as a landscaper, movie theater concessions worker, an over the counter medication manager for Wal-Mart, pharmacy technician for Wal-Mart and a bookstore manager for Urban Knowledge Bookstores.
M.T. Pope loves to eat and cook. He enjoys action movies and getting a good night's sleep. He is an introvert by nature, but his writing speaks otherwise. He likes to write the drama but living it is for other. He likes meeting new people and getting in a good, meaningful, and enlightening conversation with strangers. He feels like he can learn anything from anyone given the opportunity, even if it's what not to do. He can be reached at the outlets.
Email: chosen_97@yahoo.com, mondellpope@gmail.com
Websites: www.Facebook.com/authormtpope
www.Twitter.com/mtpope
www.Instagram.com/mtpope
www.wix.com/mtpope/mtpope
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May 2, 2024
Wow!
not-interested
September 30, 2015The blurb sounds really homophobic. The man who "turned" him? Gay? Seriously? Given the blurb of another of the author's books: "Shawn makes the mistake of befriending James, a gold-digging bisexual with a secret agenda. Pushing Shawn head first into a life of sex, secrets, and lies, James will stop at nothing to get what he wants," I doubt this book is very gay-empowering. You don't become gay because someone pushed you into it. Despite what the tea-party would have you believe, gays aren't out there recruiting. Frankly, most gay people I know might have a one-night stand with someone experimenting, but have no interest in trying to build a relationship with someone who considers themself straight, as sexy as GFY books are. This doesn't sound like a GFY book, though, it sounds like everything is being blamed on a bi guy. (And speaking for bisexuals, we're not out there to convert, either.)
If someone can tell me more about the book I would appreciate it.
If someone can tell me more about the book I would appreciate it.
March 18, 2016
Riddled with typos and homophobia, saddled with a completely ridiculous plot and a protagonist who's a promiscuous, self-loathing, hypocritical moralizing jackass. And it's so incredibly redundant. Here's part of a paragraph from the final chapter:
"Who would have thought that I had the person I was looking for in my life all of the time, and they were doing the exact thing I needed them to do, but I didn't accept it in the form that it came in? We as people always want what we want and we want it in the package that we want it to come in. But life doesn't work that way; we get the things that we need, it just never comes in the package that we want it to come in. Be it a mate, money, or a question about life. I knew now that if I asked for something, more than likely I'd get it, but not in the package that I'd want it to come in."
I'd give this zero stars if I could. I did not "not like" this. I hated it.
"Who would have thought that I had the person I was looking for in my life all of the time, and they were doing the exact thing I needed them to do, but I didn't accept it in the form that it came in? We as people always want what we want and we want it in the package that we want it to come in. But life doesn't work that way; we get the things that we need, it just never comes in the package that we want it to come in. Be it a mate, money, or a question about life. I knew now that if I asked for something, more than likely I'd get it, but not in the package that I'd want it to come in."
I'd give this zero stars if I could. I did not "not like" this. I hated it.
October 26, 2025
2.5 stars from me. Book was OK but the self hate and homophobia didn’t sit right with me. At a point I was actually rooting for the villain to destroy the so-called good guy of the story. Did have some humour and steamy scenes though but the main character was annoying !
April 10, 2025
TW: (internalized) homophobia, transphobia, ableism.
look, not everything is meant to be high brow, eloquent literature. sometimes you need cheese or schmaltz or smut. and had this book stayed in that lane ... it would have received a higher rating. but it doesn't. it has random asides about racism, homophobia, crime, etc that you really can't ignore as the author inserting his opinions - which is fine! but in a book that's basically a gay romance novel/smut ... why?!
I read this in audiobook form so I can't speak to the typos. But in audio form, it's obvious that it's not a terribly complex book. so many simple sentences that just repeat information makes it feel like the author was padding the word cat. "My mother turned to the person next to her. it was Angie sitting in the chair next to her. Angie, sitting there, not saying anything.". it's A LOT of this throughout the book
the smut wasn't even well written, it wasn't descriptive and lead to the sex scenes feeling mechanical. which, if it was a choice given the MC, I could understand. but it doesn't come off as intentional.
spoilers start here: Randomly bringing in a character's father in the third act to help resolve the central conflict? this wasn't set up well at all. Having the main character's father present all along as a woman and peppering in "transformer" to hunt at this... transphobic and poorly done. it was easily called in maybe their second appearance. I also feel like we'd moved away from "transexual" as a term by the publishing of this book.
look, not everything is meant to be high brow, eloquent literature. sometimes you need cheese or schmaltz or smut. and had this book stayed in that lane ... it would have received a higher rating. but it doesn't. it has random asides about racism, homophobia, crime, etc that you really can't ignore as the author inserting his opinions - which is fine! but in a book that's basically a gay romance novel/smut ... why?!
I read this in audiobook form so I can't speak to the typos. But in audio form, it's obvious that it's not a terribly complex book. so many simple sentences that just repeat information makes it feel like the author was padding the word cat. "My mother turned to the person next to her. it was Angie sitting in the chair next to her. Angie, sitting there, not saying anything.". it's A LOT of this throughout the book
the smut wasn't even well written, it wasn't descriptive and lead to the sex scenes feeling mechanical. which, if it was a choice given the MC, I could understand. but it doesn't come off as intentional.
spoilers start here: Randomly bringing in a character's father in the third act to help resolve the central conflict? this wasn't set up well at all. Having the main character's father present all along as a woman and peppering in "transformer" to hunt at this... transphobic and poorly done. it was easily called in maybe their second appearance. I also feel like we'd moved away from "transexual" as a term by the publishing of this book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 8, 2018
I rarely go the DNF route. But I just couldn't even bring myself to finish this. Something about the main character in here just rubbed me the wrong way. I wanted to slap him while I was reading it! And I didnt feel enough invested interest in the characters to even care to continue. The only thing I liked was the cover of this book is pretty hot haha that's what had initially pulled me in.
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August 7, 2019Another great book by M.T. Pope. Loved the book and kept me captivated until the end.
January 15, 2020
Great
What can I say that book had me on the edge the hold time it a book I would recommend reading
What can I say that book had me on the edge the hold time it a book I would recommend reading
September 3, 2020
Didn't finish.
(Life's too short..)
(Life's too short..)
September 12, 2021
Took me awhile to get into, but once I did, it was on!
July 20, 2022
Loved this one!
August 20, 2025
Loved it
This is fantastic and ready to read the next one! The couple words, will get you lock in and the rest is history.
This is fantastic and ready to read the next one! The couple words, will get you lock in and the rest is history.
January 26, 2026
a whole lot of mess 😂
January 13, 2017
Ambitious concept; incomplete execution
This wasn’t good or bad. I think the plot or what I took to be the underlying plot the immoral, irresistible, parentally confused sexual siren who was “turned” this way by a forced blowjob in college that had him fall in love and activated his inner siren & fear of abandonment. Is that the gist? Maybe I am completely off base. This story would have done well with character development & changing up the physical scenes. And the big family secret was handled with anger & unnecessary angst. The handling of this secret as well as Kraig’ trigger that set off his act of revenge. The courtroom scene seemed extreme and tidy. While I didn’t like any of the characters and some scenes were repetitive, the concept was a good one.
This wasn’t good or bad. I think the plot or what I took to be the underlying plot the immoral, irresistible, parentally confused sexual siren who was “turned” this way by a forced blowjob in college that had him fall in love and activated his inner siren & fear of abandonment. Is that the gist? Maybe I am completely off base. This story would have done well with character development & changing up the physical scenes. And the big family secret was handled with anger & unnecessary angst. The handling of this secret as well as Kraig’ trigger that set off his act of revenge. The courtroom scene seemed extreme and tidy. While I didn’t like any of the characters and some scenes were repetitive, the concept was a good one.
May 7, 2014
"the man who turned him" -- seriously?? Turned him into what -- a vampire? a werewolf?
Sorry, Mr. Pope, but "The Gay" isn't something you can catch from other people. Your homophobia is showing.
Sorry, Mr. Pope, but "The Gay" isn't something you can catch from other people. Your homophobia is showing.
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May 26, 2014light gender loving story line about a dude on the dl
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