# Three Crime Novels by Anthony Bourdain: Bone in the Throat, Gone Bamboo, and the Bobby Gold Stories - Paperback

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by **Anthony Bourdain** (Author)

**"DELICIOUSLY DEPRAVED" -_The New York Times_ on _Bone in the Throat_**

**Rediscover the legendary Anthony Bourdain through his three wild crime novels full of criminal cooks, bloody kitchens, and extra-sharp knives.**

It 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.

Bourdain'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.

Full 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.

### Author Biography

**Anthony Bourdain**, the renowned chef, author, and raconteur, is best known for having traveled the globe on his TV show _Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown_. Bourdain authored the _New York Times_ bestselling _Kitchen Confidential_ and _Medium Raw_; _A Cook's Tour_; the collection _The Nasty Bits_; and the _New York Times_ bestselling cookbook, _Appetites_. He wrote for _The New Yorker_, _The New York Times_, and _The Times of London._ He was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning docuseries _Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown_ on CNN, and Emmy award-winning _No Reservations_, among others. He died in 2018.

**Number of Pages:** 608

**Dimensions:** 1.5 x 9.19 x 6.16 IN

**Publication Date:** July 28, 2026

## Details

- **Price:** 31.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Collections & Anthologies, Crime, Dark Humor, Fiction, Humorous, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Thrillers

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