What are some books that read like (screen)plays that are a bit heavier on action?

I’m looking for a book that skips out on the prose of setting the scene or detailing characters’ exact feelings or facial expressions. I also find it frustrating how I have yet to read a book that does not give me the same adrenaline rush as watching my beloved kung fu flicks or gun brawl movies a la John Wick. I’ve read some action books recommended to me by friends and their action scenes often lack descriptors of the action itself instead just writing of its intensity; what happened to show don’t tell?

Maybe this is a lost cause as books and film and games work on very different restrictions, but it’s not that I don’t enjoy reading, but I often gravitate towards nonfiction because information is often told in a clinical, sterile manner where information feels a bit more “objective”.

No constraints on genre/setting as I know I’m already asking a lot.

tl;dr Are there books that feel as action heavy as John Wick or a Wilson Yip film?

by WendysVapenator