There aren't very many authors who can take the idea of the space opera and shift it from being about a war to about bank fraud and keep me on board. And then there's Stross. He's a...polarizing author; his style of writing can make you want to scream with all the digressions and the way his first person narrators are conscious of their own storytelling.
Having said that, his space operas work for me. Actually, as a rule, the closer his settings get to the real world, the less I enjoy the fiction.
This is a hard book to recommend, but if his style and the idea of gonzo sci-fi works for you, Stross may be your thing. How else can you get assassins, zombies, mermaids and Ponzi schemes all into one narrative?