Masked Dog

by Raymond Obstfeld

Government scientists have been working on him for years. And now he's free. . . .

304 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1986

About the author

aka Laramie Dunaway, Jason Frost, Carl Stevens

Raymond Obstfeld is a writer of poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and screenplays as well as a professor of English at Orange Coast College. He lives in California.

Obstfeld has authored or co-authored nearly 50 books. Since 2007, he has been co-author to eight books with NBA basketball legend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Obstfeld has twice been nominated for the NAACP Image Award, having won once. He has also been nominated for an Edgar A. Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Dead Heat.Early in his writing career, Obstfeld wrote under several pseudonyms (Pike Bishop, Carl Stevens, Jason Frost) because he wrote different genres. After writing over a dozen thrillers, Westerns, and occult novels, he decided to return to mainstream literary fiction that he had written in graduate school. Because he’d already achieved some fame as a mystery writer, he decided to write his new novel under the name Laramie Dunaway. The novel, Hungry Women, was written from the points of view of four women friends. It was published by Warner Books without anyone at the publishing house knowing Obstfeld was a man. The novel went on to great success, being published internationally. Laramie Dunaway published two more novels before informing Warner of his gender. The publisher decided to publish Obstfeld’s next novel, Earth Angel, under his real name.

Reviews

[Josh Hitch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maybe I'm just being generous because I was expecting bad things from this book. The plot sounds cheesy, and it's 300 pages, which seems long for the kind of tale. However, I found myself really enjoying it. A psycho prisoner was used in a CIA backed experiment on creating a super soldier. The drugs made him fearless and unable to feel pain. Also, it made him unbelievably strong and gave him a photographic memory. Of course, he escapes. He has some odd thoughts of revenge on a washed up musician that he blames for not being able to escape earlier. This musician becomes the focal point of the tale while the CIA uses that knowledge to try to capture or kill their project.

Highly recommended, it is a really fun read that seems to fly by. It is written better than you would have any reason to think based on the kind of the book.

[Bahbooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

A leitura é fluída, senti que estava assistindo um filme de ação! Gostei bastante da história, mas em vários momentos fiquei chocada com a violência!

[Lori Campbell · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did not like this book at all and couldn't even finish it.