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Anthony Bourdain

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

by Anthony Bourdain (Author) Format: Paperback

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"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.

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Print length

608 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date

July 28, 2026
Dimensions

6.12 x 1 x 9.25 inches
ISBN-10

163973936X
ISBN-13

978-1639739363

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Rediscover the legendary Anthony Bourdain

"deliciously depraved." -The New York Times

"A new master of the wiseass crime comedy." -Publishers Weekly

"Bourdain cooks as a writer." -The New York Times

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“Bourdain's best writing can make food lovers quiver like raw fish.” ―The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“A Manhattan tale with Elmore Leonard flavor . . . Bourdain cooks as a writer.” ―The New York Times on The Bobby Gold Stories

“The chef wields his pen with the same murderously winning flair as he does his knives.” ―Kirkus Reviews, on The Bobby Gold Stories

“A new master of the wiseass crime comedy.” ―Publishers Weekly on Gone Bamboo

“Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo.” ―New York

About the Author

Anthony Bourdain was the New York Times-bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, A Cook's Tour, Typhoid Mary and The Nasty Bits, the cookbooks Appetites and Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. He also co-authored the graphic novel Get Jiro! with Joel Rose. His writing appeared in the New York Times and New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations, Parts Unknown, A Cook's Tour and The Layover. Bourdain died in June 2018.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 28, 2026
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 608 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 163973936X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1639739363
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.12 x 1 x 9.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #957,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,069 in Dark Humor
- #2,390 in Humor About Law & Crime
- #2,445 in Mystery Anthologies (Books)

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Anthony Bourdain was the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, the memoir A Cook’s Tour, and the New York Times bestsellers Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, Appetites and World Travel. His work appeared in the New York Times and the New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown. Bourdain died in June 2018.

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