Best action sequence

[AZZenny]

Need your guidance, O Readers -- please tell me the one or two books -- I'm thinking novels, but doesn't have to be -- that you really think of as having the best physical action or suspense-to-action passages or chapters. Can be mano-a-mano, chase scenes, recon/hunt, escape scenes, technical, primitive, whatever. I'm not looking for the bloodiest or gross horror-story type suspense or a whodunit as much as actual process of manhunt, action-thriller, crime, military, espionage type sections.
Thanks

 

[Heucrazy]

The ending of "Lord of Chaos" book 6 in the "Wheel of Time" series is one of the most fanatastic battle scenes I've ever read.

 

[SuperSpck]

The opening battle in Starship Troopers (and not the movie!).

 

[Ryanwb]

Matthew Reilly is one of the best action/suspense writers I have read. Can't go wrong with Robert Ludlum books either

 

[Louis]

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer

Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

 

[dodie53]

halo novels
and
night angel trilogy