The Drawing of the Dark has multiple examples of this but my favorite is a sequence where a character has to dispose of a pound of cocaine taped to his chest while locked inside an airplane bathroom.

This is obviously a different Drawing of the Dark than the one about the sixteenth-century beer.

Forfeit, by Dick Francis, for a sequence in which the hero has to transport his disabled wife and her breathing equipment down a flight of stairs while drunk as the villain made him chug a glass of whiskey.

I haven't read that one in ages! Now I know which Dick Francis I am reading next.