The acclaimed first novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN. A wildly funny, irreverent tale of murder, mayhem, and the mob.
Synopsis
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 humour. This first novel is a must-have for fans of Anthony Bourdain’s nonfiction.
Richard says
Bone in the Throat is exactly as the synopsis describes, a mob story. Bourdain must have had a penchant for the mob or seen enough of them in his kitchen career that he had near, if not outright first hand experience with mafia types.
It’s a grisly story at times, suspenseful and tension-filled but reading it bordered on boredom with page after page of gruesome mob activity. I saw no point to the story other than to portray the mob as sadistic killers.
A book that likely appeals to a very narrow niche of readers.
