"Literary" Thrillers/Action books?

[ATV]

Could anyone give me a heads up on stand-alone thriller/action books which have been written to a very high quality?

I'm talking very good prose or structure and excellent characterisation.

An example would be "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt.

I'm not interested in any books as part of an ongoing series or recurring character.

Thanks

[ATV]

thanks all for the advice.

I'd been looking at the Zafon books for a while, I've got it on Kindle, I'll make it my next one. I've read another Spanish writer Reverte-Perez who's done some amazing literary thrillers like "The Club Dumas" (turned into an awful Johnny Depp film, but still a damn fine nove).

I'll give Alan Furst a try as well.

A google search gave me William Boyd's "Any Human Heart" and "Ordinary Thunderstorms" as example of literary thrillers, I'd be interested if any PHers have read these and can vouch if the books are as good as the critical reviews?