{"product_id":"three-crime-novels-by-anthony-bourdain-bone-in-the-throat-go-9363","title":"Three Crime Novels by Anthony Bourdain: Bone in the Throat, Gone Bamboo, and the Bobby Gold Stories","description":"\u003cp\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\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"DELICIOUSLY DEPRAVED\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eBone in the Throat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eBourdain's first book, \u003ci\u003eBone in the Throat\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eGone Bamboo\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Bobby Gold Stories\u003c\/i\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\" ( \u003ci\u003eEater\u003c\/i\u003e), and he's Bourdain as you've never known him before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Bourdain\u003c\/b\u003e was the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eKitchen Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMedium Raw\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Cook's Tour, Typhoid Mary \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Nasty Bits, \u003c\/i\u003e the cookbooks \u003ci\u003eAppetites \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAnthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novels \u003ci\u003eBone in the Throat \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGone Bamboo\u003c\/i\u003e. He also co-authored the graphic novel \u003ci\u003eGet Jiro!\u003c\/i\u003e with Joel Rose. His writing appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the host of the popular television shows \u003ci\u003eNo Reservations, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eParts Unknown, A Cook's Tour \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Layover. \u003c\/i\u003eBourdain died in June 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthony Bourdain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52756710555933,"sku":"9781639739363","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781639739363.jpg?v=1786572129","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/three-crime-novels-by-anthony-bourdain-bone-in-the-throat-go-9363","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}