But rather different from Shogun. Noble House is perhaps the most European book in the series, as it's set in Hong Kong in the '60s, so the Asian aspects are a bit less strong than in the five others. But in terms of plot, pace and excitement, it's the best of the lot, imho. It's almost 24-like in its pace - over a thousand pages spread over merely seven days storytime, iirc, means the action (not only action in the sense of violence or action movies, obviously) starts early and never really stops.

I'm not sure I'd prefer Tai-Pan over Shogun as Jonte does, though...