Completely confused and overwhelmed with A Pound of Flesh

I picked up A Pound of Flesh Based on a friend’s recommendation, I have now finished reading through it. Am I missing something? I read about how people ran the campaign from this book but I don’t see a campaign anywhere.

It read like complete gibberish. I couldn’t find any through line on any plots or any stories. There was a lot of “for more information about such and such speak with so and so” after flipping to their page there is zero information about what you are directed to get more information about. It’s a complete dead end. That’s the whole book. One dead end after another.

I see myself stealing some of the shops and menu tables but there’s nothing else there.

I must be missing something.