Bone in the Throat Book by Anthony Bourdain

Bone in the Throat is Anthony Bourdain's debut novel, a "Mafia caper" that uses his deep culinary knowledge to ground a story of organized crime in Manhattan's Little Italy. The story follows Tommy Pagano, a young, ambitious chef who takes a job at the Dreadnought Grill, a restaurant owned by a failed dentist named Harvey. Tommy soon discovers the restaurant is a front for the Mafia, run by his uncle, Sally Wig.