{"product_id":"three-crime-novels-by-anthony-bourdain-bone-in-the-throat-gone-bamboo-and-the-bobby-gold-stories-9781639739363","title":"Three Crime Novels by Anthony Bourdain: Bone in the Throat, Gone Bamboo, and the Bobby Gold Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"DELICIOUSLY DEPRAVED\" -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eBone in the Throat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRediscover the legendary Anthony Bourdain through his three wild crime novels full of criminal cooks, bloody kitchens, and extra-sharp knives.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBourdain's first book, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBone in the Throat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGone Bamboo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eKitchen Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e, the now-canonical book that made him a legend. But before cleaning up his act for good, Bourdain had one final job: to write \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bobby Gold Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\" (\u003ci\u003eEater\u003c\/i\u003e), and he's Bourdain as you've never known him before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639739363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.43w x 1.00d","brand":"Anthony Bourdain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52604448211125,"sku":"9781639739363","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d735df69-94af-41b6-9169-1fa9343a7f36.jpg?v=1780454407","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/three-crime-novels-by-anthony-bourdain-bone-in-the-throat-gone-bamboo-and-the-bobby-gold-stories-9781639739363","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}