Gone Bamboo - by Anthony Bourdain (Paperback)

About the Book

Henry and Frances, a husband-and-wife hitman team, have gone bamboo--living an idyllic, retired life in the Caribbean. But when Donnie, a criminal relocated by the Federal Witness Protection Program, inadvertently jeopardizes their plan, all hell breaks loose in this hilarious crime thriller by the author of "Kitchen Confidential".

Book Synopsis

A hilarious crime thriller by Anthony Bourdain, the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown on CNN.

CIA-trained assassin Henry Denard is looking for the good life when he retires with his wife, Frances, to the Caribbean. He may have botched his last job a little-allowed Donnie Wicks, the guy Jimmy Pazz hired him to kill, to escape with his life-but Henry and Frances are determined to take it easy.

That is until Donnie agrees to testify against Jimmy Pazz, and gets relocated by the Federal Witness Protection Program to Saint Martin as well. Now Jimmy Pazz is after both men-the mobster, and the man who was supposed to kill him-and things in Henry's paradise are about to get a lot more complicated.

Written in Anthony Bourdain's signature style (raucous, funny, a bit vicious, and always fun), Gone Bamboo is a feast of murder, hitmen, and the hitwomen they love.

Review Quotes

"Bourdain serves up a delectable concoction sure to appeal..." --Denver Post

"A potentially routine mob caper is brought to life by tight plotting, appealing characters and a stylish mix of irony, snappy dialogue and amoral verve." --Publishers Weekly (Starred review)

"Bourdain's prose is utterly riveting, swaggering with stylish machismo." --New York Magazine

"Bourdain was always more than he seemed." --Los Angeles Times

About the Author

Anthony Bourdain was the New York Times-bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, which sold over a million copies, Medium Raw, A Cook's Tour and The Nasty Bits, the cookbooks Appetites and Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, 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 Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Bourdain died in June 2018.