His one published novel is a philosophical thriller, The Divine and The Decay (London, MacGibbon and Kee, 1957), also published as The Leap!

When Henry James played in this court, he served up fascinating and dense philosophical thrillers.

Now, in his first novel, "The Murder of Albert Einstein," he combines those two seemingly unrelated interests, television and radical politics, to produce a lucid if somewhat emotionally attenuated philosophical thriller.

Frozen Fire is a philosophical thriller about the nature of reality by Tim Bowler.

Or rather his work has been less heard of: essays, criticism, translations, a philosophical thriller, an erotic fantasy.

A similar premise underlies Michael Pye's engaging new novel, "Taking Lives," a philosophical thriller about a serial killer who takes on his victims' identities.

Kim Newman from Empire Magazine gave the film immense praise, calling the Hunter a "A slow-burning, beautifully shot, and highly understated philosophical thriller".

But then, having laid the groundwork for a philosophical thriller, the book abruptly becomes conventional, alternating between a rather standard swindle story and a conundrum lifted straight from 'Catch-22' (so much so that even the novel's main character remarks upon the similarity).

The book is compared to "The Name of the Rose," Umberto Eco's philosophical thriller, and to "Perfume," Patrick Suskind's bizarre mystery about a man with a superhuman sense of smell.

The Wall Street Journal called the book a "chilling philosophical thriller" and included it in its Best Fiction of 2012, while Time Out Chicago called the novel a "breath of fresh air."