The Bobby Gold Stories

Name: The Bobby Gold Stories
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Anthony Bourdain
ISBN: 9780062448019

Author: Anthony Bourdain

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/15/2016

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Suspense & Thriller, Crime

Synopsis

Bobby Gold is a lovable criminal. After nearly ten years in prison, he’s no sooner out than he’s back to work breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant business. It’s not that he enjoys the job—Bobby has real heart—but 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 has known trouble before, but with Nikki the sauté 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 Stories is Bourdain at his best.

About Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain was the author of the New York Times bestsellers Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw, World Travel, and Appetites and the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. His work appeared in the New York Times and The New Yorker. He was the host of the popular television shows No Reservations and Parts Unknown. Bourdain died in June 2018.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon on September 16, 2022

I was really impressed with this book...Bourdain has a real talent for taking people out of their element and then confronting them with problems they have to solve before they can move on. Bobby Gold is coming for you if you owe the wrong people money; he has to break your bones to make his point,......more

Goodreads review by Byron on November 29, 2011

You could finish the entire thing during the course of a particularly epic bowel movement, and you get the sense it's just something Anthony Bourdain threw together to capitalize on the success of the mega bestseller Kitchen Confidential and the subsequent TV series, but who gives a shit? I don't li......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on June 12, 2018

After waking up the other morning to the news of Bourdain's death, I immediately went to my Kindle and bought everything I didn't already own. I realized that I hadn't had the pleasure of the Bobby Gold Stories yet. Two things occurred to me while reading: 1) I didn't know Tony wrote smut. Not the be......more

Goodreads review by pianogal on June 27, 2016

I liked this one more than I thought I would. Sometimes short stories are hard to read b/c they get choppy but these were just the right amount. Bourdain also connected them well. We got the story without all the filler. This one might be my favorite of his fiction books.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on November 08, 2021

A very shot read by Anthony Bourdain. I don’t think it’ll be to everyone’s liking, but I loved it. The book reads like a collection of short stories from the life of the main character, Booby Gold. The writing style is classic Bourdain, filled with larger-than-life characters. A must-read for any Bo......more