{"product_id":"9781639739363","title":"Three Crime Novels by Anthony Bourdain","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Anthony Bourdain","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48060704227380,"sku":"9781639739363","price":32.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/0320\/4404\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a4bf20c0-e094-4aad-bad8-c50145117ba2.jpg?v=1784821014","url":"https:\/\/wanderingalbatrossbooks.com\/products\/9781639739363","provider":"Wandering Albatross Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}