Gone Bamboo (Canongate Crime Classics) (Paperback)

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Tommy, the sous-chef from Bourdain's first novelBone In the Throatturns up in Windward Islands house sitting for a New Jersey mob capo who almost got capped, but instead got two bullets in the back and a colostomy bag. And heavens above, by coincidence, Henry, the assassin lives just down the beach. And the assassin's next job is to get the capo to forgive him so he doesn't get dead or worse. So guess what? Henry and his wife get close to Tommy and his girlfriend, and that's when the trouble really starts. In Henry and Frances Denard, Bourdain has invented two of the most deliciously amoral characters in crime fiction. They're stone-cold killers both, and they illsutrate it when they get ivolved in a gigantic shoot-out close to the end of the book, then Bourdain shows a softer side with a tearful climax. Great stuff! (Kirkus UK)

For his second course, Bourdain, novelist (Bone in the Throat, 1995) and chef (at Sullivan's, in Manhattan), dishes up a sorry, soggy mess of a stew in which a good-hearted hit man finds himself on the spot with both mob chieftains and law-enforcement agencies. Hired by an ambitious cross-dressing mafioso named Pazz Calabrese to eliminate his two immediate superiors, Henry Denard dispatches one but only wounds the other, D'Andrea (Donnie Wicks) Balistieri - an aging capo di tutti capi in New York. After returning to Saint Martin, the idyllic West Indian haven he calls home, the hired gun (a decorated Vietnam vet who went on to work for the CIA) learns his wounded target has turned informant and will testify against former partners in crime. What's more, an accommodating interpretation of the Witness Protection Act allows Donnie Wicks (and a small army of US marshals) to take up residence on Saint Martin. Concerned that he and his hardcase wife Frances may have to find another place to live, Henry talks his way inside the former don's compound for a meet. Not to worry, the elderly outlaw has the nothing-personal aspect of gangdom's business down pat, and he soon takes a shine to the professional killer as well as to his lovely, lethal lady. In the meantime, the expatriate godfather's former underlings mount a deadly campaign to silence him. In the wake of a furious assault on his island home (which costs six feds and a like number of Dominican nationals their lives), Donnie Wicks (now under the protection of venal French officials) is reported dead. As a favor to the American authorities cheated of a show trial, Henry heads north to waste the kinky Calabrese and his top lieutenants with a light anti-tank weapon on a New Jersey construction site. At the close, he's drinking and living it up with Frances and Donnie Wicks at his Caribbean hideaway. In the parlance of cuisine: tripe. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Henry and Frances' idyllic, tequila soaked existence in the French Caribbean is interrupted when Henry has to do a small job for the cross-dressing Mafioso, Jimmy 'Pazz' Calabrese, but it all goes wrong.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   11 of 11 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastically Funny!!, 31 Jan 2002 By  J. Weyman (London, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    This review is from: Gone Bamboo (Paperback) Henry and Frances live on the beautiful island of St Maartin in the Caribbean. They are laid back and in love as professional assasins go, and are headed for trouble in paradise. When Henry is paid to carry out a hit on Mafia Boss, Charles "Charlie Wagons" Iannello, by one of his croonies, Henry agrees. When the hit doesn't quite go to plan Henry is in for a big surprise when one year later his tropical hideaway is under siege by an ill tempered Irish Man, a transvestite gangster, numerous US Marshalls and the man he was supposed to hit in the first place..... Best read on a sizzling beach holiday, extrememly well written and thouroughly enjoyable. As the author himself urges you to do when you get bored, "...have another beer, take a dip...have sex...read another chapter. And please. Get sand between the pages". Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   8 of 8 people found the following review helpful: 4.0 out of 5 stars Delicious entertainment., 10 Sep 2001 By A Customer Mr. Bourdain's story of amoral assasins, retired mafiosi and hedonism in the Carribean is a joy to read. Written with the same ear for dialogue and eye for local detail that distinguished Bone in the Throat, Gone Bamboo evokes Bourdain's love of the sensual and the sleazy. The book, like the unpasteurised cheeses that Mr. Bourdain rightly champions, might not appeal to the squeamish, but then such people don't really understand how to enjoy themselves anyway. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   9 of 12 people found the following review helpful: 3.0 out of 5 stars Pulp kitchen continued, 13 May 2003 By  "critico" - See all my reviews    This review is from: Gone Bamboo (Paperback) Anthony Bourdain - of Kitchen Confidential fame - has made another good attempt at writing pulp fiction (he started with Bone in the throat), and like any well labeled tin of beans, it has exactly what it says on the tin. Mafiosos, hitmen, French government agents, exotic settings and a lacing of food and spirits to keep with the author's background. Serve with a chilled daiquiri on a tropical beach. Will not cause brain brain constipation or any other discomfort. In fact, will pass right through. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 4 customer reviews...		Ad feedback   Most Recent Customer Reviews 2.0 out of 5 stars Sophmore Slump A rather disappointing sequel to Bone in the Throat, this mob caper never achieves the breezy good humor of the Bourdain's debut. Read more Published on 20 Feb 2003 by A. Ross Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 4 customer reviews...

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