Haha, no, that's not what I meant by the detail part!
Without giving away too much story-line,
The Progidal Daughter has lots of politics in it, about how the political machine in the States works. There's also something similar in
As the Crow Flies in terms of how businesses work.
He doesn't do as good a job as Jilly Cooper or Jean Auel when it comes to working in the text-book parts of the story in, but it's not completely unreadable
He doesn't have the pace of WS, but then I don't know anyone who does compare!