Bobby Gold

by Anthony Bourdain

Paperback, 120 pages

English language

Published Aug. 9, 2018 by Cannongate Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-78689-517-2
OCLC Number:: 1042084060

(5 reviews)

Ten slices from the life of Bobby Gold: by night, the security chief of a mobbed-up New York City nightclub, by day, a reluctant bonebreaker and enforcer.

He views the grim work of coercion, assault and even murder as jobs to be done with a craftsman’s work ethic and with a minimum of force. However, the technician’s pride in a job done well is failing him, his friend and protector Eddie Fish is getting flakier and flakier and, worst of all, he’s falling in love with Nicole, a reckless and self-destructive line-cook who’s been around the block a few times.

Following on from his two superb earlier novels, Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain has produced another stunning book of crime fiction.

5 editions

jayvall reviewed The Bobby Gold Stories by Anthony Bourdain

Review of 'The Bobby Gold Stories' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

The sole reason I read this was because it was the last book I needed to fulfill a reading challenge, but honestly, I would have rathered fail the challenge than read this. It's such a waste of time. It's not well written. Calling it a book is overstating it. Calling it a collection of short stories is overstating it. It's a collection of scenes that are connected and kind of have a point. Only kind of. The one tiny blessing was that this was super short. Each story is at best 3 pages long. So the misery ends quickly.