The Bobby Gold Stories [Paperback]

From the host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown andNew York Timesbestselling author ofKitchen Confidential,a crime novel about a lovable criminal, a fabulous cook, and a botched robbery that sets the pair on the run.

After doing ten years in the clinker, Bobby Gold out and ready for work. With not even an attempt to play it straight, he's back to breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant racket. It's not that he enjoys the jobBobby has real heartbut he's good at it and a guy has to make a living. Things change when he meets Nikki, the cook at a club most definitely not in his territory. Smitten, he can't stay away. Bobby Gold had known trouble before, but with Nikki the saut? bitch in his life, things take a turn for life or death.

A fast, furious, pitch-perfect story of food, sex, crime, and mayhem,The Bobby Gold Storiesis Bourdain at his best.

Chef and author Anthony Bourdain wrote theNew York Timesbestselling memoirsKitchen Confidential,Medium Raw, andA Cooks Tour; the collectionThe Nasty Bits; the novelsBone in the Throat,The Bobby Gold Stories, andGone Bamboo; the biographyTyphoid Mary; and the cookbooksAppetitesandLes Halles Cookbook.

Bourdain was the host of the Emmy and Peabody Awardwinning docuseriesAnthony Bourdain: Parts Unknownon CNN, and prior to that hosted the Emmy AwardwinningNo ReservationsandThe Layoveron the Travel Channel andThe Tasteon ABC.