Three Crime Novels by Anthony Bourdain (3冊合售)

「邪惡得令人回味無窮。」——《紐約時報》（The New York Times）評《Bone in the Throat》

透過這三部狂野奔放的犯罪小說，重新認識傳奇人物安東尼．波登——故事裡有身陷犯罪世界的廚師、血跡斑斑的廚房，以及鋒利無比的刀刃。

時間回到骯髒混亂的 1990 年代。當時的安東尼．波登還只是紐約市一位默默無聞、總是綁著頭巾的主廚。他終日守著瓦斯爐揮汗如雨，與那些曾是罪犯、如今在廚房備料的同事一邊工作一邊鬥嘴。他熱愛那種並肩作戰的情誼：揮刀剁開牛骨、和一群惹是生非的傢伙偷喝酒、在廚房裡共同打拚。對他而言，這就是一間好廚房，也是藝術。

波登的第一本小說《Bone in the Throat》，正是從這個世界的血肉與內臟中孕育而生。這是一部節奏飛快的黑幫犯罪小說，主角湯米是一位立志成為主廚的年輕人，和波登一樣剛從曼哈頓的廚藝學校畢業。他在小義大利區一家供應傳統義大利紅醬料理的餐廳找到工作，卻不知道這家餐廳早已深陷黑手黨的麻煩之中，而他自己也很快成了其中的一員。

本書出版後，波登前往聖馬丁島生活一年，希望能「讓自己重新步上正軌」。接著，他寫下《Gone Bamboo》，一部荒誕又令人捧腹的犯罪驚悚小說。故事主角亨利是一名受中央情報局（CIA）訓練的職業殺手，在一次失敗的暗殺任務後退休，搬到聖馬丁島展開新生活。然而，在這個世界裡，舊帳從來不是說放下就能放下。

直到此時，波登才出版了後來成為經典、也讓他一舉成名的《Kitchen Confidential（廚房機密檔案）》。

但在真正告別過去之前，波登還完成了最後一次「任務」：寫下他生涯最後一部小說《The Bobby Gold Stories》。故事描述曾經瘦弱的鮑比在監獄服刑八年後，變成了一名冷酷強悍的硬漢。出獄後，他到一家受黑幫操控的夜店工作，並愛上一位性格火爆的爐台廚師妮基。然而，妮基帶來的麻煩，遠比鮑比所能想像的還要棘手。

充滿揮舞菜刀的廚師、能言善道的罪犯，以及庇護著他們的廚房，這三部小說展現了波登在成名前最真實、最狂放不羈的內心世界。正如《Eater》所說：「我認為，你可以在這些早期小說裡找到真正的波登。」在這裡，你將看見一個前所未見的安東尼．波登。

"DELICIOUSLY DEPRAVED" –The New York Times on Bone in the Throat

Rediscover the legendary Anthony Bourdain through his three wild crime novels full of criminal cooks, bloody kitchens, and extra-sharp knives.

It was the seedy 1990s, and Anthony Bourdain was an anonymous headband-clad chef in New York City. Sweating over gas ranges and mouthing off with the criminals-turned-prep cooks working the line, he loved the camaraderie of cleaving beef bones and pilfering booze with the troublemakers of the world. It was all part of a good kitchen, and to him, it was art.

Bourdain's first book, Bone in the Throat, was pulled from the entrails of this world. The breakneck mafia caper follows a wannabe chef named Tommy who, like Bourdain, is fresh out of culinary school in Manhattan. He settles for a stint at a red sauce joint in Little Italy, unaware that the restaurant is in deep trouble with the mob-and that now he is too. After publication, Bourdain spent a year in St. Martin to “straighten himself out.” Then came Gone Bamboo, a hysterical crime thriller that follows Henry, a CIA-trained assassin who retires to St. Martin after a botched murder job-but scores aren't settled that easily. It was only then that Bourdain published Kitchen Confidential, the now-canonical book that made him a legend. But before cleaning up his act for good, Bourdain had one final job: to write The Bobby Gold Stories, his last ever novel, which follows a once-scrawny Bobby as he does eight years in prison and comes out a hardened brute. When Bobby takes a job at a mobbed-up club, he falls for a fiery line cook named Nikki who brings more trouble than even he knows how to handle.

Full of knife-slinging chefs, fast-talking criminals, and the kitchens that harbor them all, these books reveal Bourdain's mind before his fame. “You can find him, I think, in these early novels” (Eater), and he's Bourdain as you've never known him before.