It’s hard to make bad guys into likeable protagonists, and this author doesn’t succeed. The “Code” that our protagonist, Wolf (eye roll), has that’s supposed to show him to be an upstanding guy is that he doesn’t hurt women. While that’s great, it’s also a very low moral bar. Even so, I was willing to keep listening, until I got to the part where he entered a dungeon with Miriam, the daughter of the big boss. He was *supposed* to be taking her to the airport and was charged with her safety; instead, he drove to a dungeon, got into a fight with a rival gang, damaging his boss’s expensive vehicle, before taking her inside. This behavior is totally inexplicable, given the world-building, Wolf’s world-weary experience, and his relationship to the big boss. The author clearly wanted her inside the dungeon and couldn’t be bothered to construct a reasonable scenario to put her there. I lost my will to continue.
The card stuff, by the way, is far too complicated. I understood almost nothing that was going on.