{"product_id":"three-crime-novels-by-anthony-bourdain-bone-in-the-throat-gone-bamboo-and-the-bobby-gold-stories","title":"Three Crime Novels by Anthony Bourdain: Bone in the Throat, Gone Bamboo, and The Bobby Gold Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"DELICIOUSLY DEPRAVED\" –The New York Times on Bone in the Throat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRediscover the legendary Anthony Bourdain through his three wild crime novels full of criminal cooks, bloody kitchens, and extra-sharp knives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was the seedy 1990s, and Anthony Bourdain was an anonymous headband-clad chef in New York City. Sweating over gas ranges and mouthing off with the criminals-turned-prep cooks working the line, he loved the camaraderie of cleaving beef bones and pilfering booze with the troublemakers of the world. It was all part of a good kitchen, and to him, it was art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBourdain's first book, Bone in the Throat, was pulled from the entrails of this world. The breakneck mafia caper follows a wannabe chef named Tommy who, like Bourdain, is fresh out of culinary school in Manhattan. He settles for a stint at a red sauce joint in Little Italy, unaware that the restaurant is in deep trouble with the mob-and that now he is too. After publication, Bourdain spent a year in St. Martin to “straighten himself out.” Then came Gone Bamboo, a hysterical crime thriller that follows Henry, a CIA-trained assassin who retires to St. Martin after a botched murder job-but scores aren't settled that easily. It was only then that Bourdain published Kitchen Confidential, the now-canonical book that made him a legend. But before cleaning up his act for good, Bourdain had one final job: to write The Bobby Gold Stories, his last ever novel, which follows a once-scrawny Bobby as he does eight years in prison and comes out a hardened brute. When Bobby takes a job at a mobbed-up club, he falls for a fiery line cook named Nikki who brings more trouble than even he knows how to handle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of knife-slinging chefs, fast-talking criminals, and the kitchens that harbor them all, these books reveal Bourdain's mind before his fame. “You can find him, I think, in these early novels” (Eater), and he's Bourdain as you've never known him before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54011889647923,"sku":"9781639739363","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/6181\/5859\/files\/9781639739363.jpg?v=1788536532","url":"https:\/\/www.bluebirdcrozet.com\/products\/three-crime-novels-by-anthony-bourdain-bone-in-the-throat-gone-bamboo-and-the-bobby-gold-stories","provider":"Bluebird \u0026 Company Crozet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}