Diamondback

by Raymond Obstfeld

The first in the thrilling DIAMONDBACK series Diamondback. His real name is seen only on wanted posters, spoken only by bounty hunters. But as Cord Diamondback he’s blazed new fame as a judge-for-hire — with the fists, guns, and brains to make his decisions stick. He took the job in Dog Trail for the money — and the woman. But Diamondback has been double crossed - and the sentence for that is death... Praise for Pike ‘Don’t miss a moment of this trip’ – Cosmopolitan ‘Clever, witty, mordant, ripe with repartee and riposte’ – Los Angeles Times Pike Bishop is the pseudonym of Raymond Obstfeld, an associate professor of English at Orange Coast College in California. He is the author of over two dozen novels, including Dead Heat, which was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and Doing Good, his book on comparative ethics and religion. He has also written numerous plays, screenplays, and a book of poetry, and his short stories have appeared in several anthologies. As Pike Bishop he has also written Judgement at Poisoned Well, the second book in the 'Diamondback Series'. As Raymond Obstfeld he has written three other contemporary Hungry Women, Borrowed Lives, and Lessons in Survival, all of which became international bestsellers.

188 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 7, 2019

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.