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 for Eddie Fish - his old college roommate, and best friend.
Emerging from the ''gladiator school'' environment of an upstate prison with an imposing physique and a reputation for skilled brutality, Bobby''s a lonely, guilt-ridden child inside a hulking bodyHe 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 is getting flakier and flakier and worst of all, he''s falling in love with Nicole, a reckless and self-destructive female line-cook who"s been around the block a few times.

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

Format Häftad Omfång 128 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Canongate Books Utgivningsdatum 2018-08-09 ISBN 9781786895172