Bone in the Throat by Anthony Bourdain

Bone in the Throat by Anthony Bourdain

The acclaimed first novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN. A wildly funny, irreverent tale of murder, mayhem, and the mob.

When up-and-coming chef Tommy Pagana settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle's restaurant in Manhattan's Little Italy, he unwittingly finds himself a partner in big-time crime. And when the mob decides to use the kitchen for a murder, nothing Tommy learned in cooking school has prepared him for what happens next.

With the FBI on one side, and his eccentric wise-guy superiors on the other, Tommy has to struggle to do right by his conscience, and to avoid getting killed in the meantime.

In the vein of Prizzi's Honor, Bone in the Throat is a thrilling Mafia caper laced with entertaining characters and wry humor. This first novel is a must-have for fans of Anthony Bourdain's nonfiction.

Anthony Bourdain was the author of the New York Times bestsellers Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, and Appetites, as well as the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, the biography A Cook's Tour, and the memoir A Cook's Tour. The New York Times and The New Yorker published his writing. He was the host of No Reservations and Parts Unknown, two successful television programmes. Bourdain passed away in June of this year.