Nearly unreadable opening to the Angel's Luck trilogy. The book begins and is dominated by dialogue where the speakers go on and on, yet never listen, resulting in pages of frustrating passages where an important plot point is delayed until someone finally shuts up. This takes place in some far future, far from Earth, with spaceships plugged in for merchant trading ships, fast cars, and luxury liners, ad yakuza as villains. Details of how anything works, from the spaceships to business, is revealed only when the plot needs it, leading to an "anything can happen" destruction of all suspense. The opening suggests a comic adventure, but the characters are undeveloped, unsympathetic, and with no moral code. They end up being perfectly happy to engage in a major heist, with a major body count, including flooding an armored car with chlorine gas, with nary a trace of remorse anywhere.

Surprisingly, the next book is readable.

Strongly not recommended. ( )