Bobby Gold

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.