10 excellent international thrillers

Looking for the perfect summer read? You couldn't do better than to pick up any of these 10 thrillers, each set in a different corner of the world. From Instanbul to Tokyo to Nairobi to the steamy South of France, these books will keep you turning pages at a desperate pace, even as you travel the globe.

10. "Evil and the Mask," by Fuminori Nakamura

A young Japanese boy learns that he is to inherit his father’s career as a “personification of evil” – life as an assassin, a corrupt arms dealer, and a wartime instigator – in this bizarre, riveting story about the blurred line between corruption and morality.

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