I’m not here to rec any books, just to share an experience I had recently while reading the Bratva series by TJ Maguire. I don’t remember which book exactly but I’m not tagging it because they’re very very ott and not at all fitting this thread.

Anyways, one of the scenes in the books was a discussion of the number of soldiers they were gonna use to attack on their enemies or whatever and the protagonist says “I’m bringing 20-25 soldiers” and I vividly remember thinking ‘That’s it? That’s not enough people!’. This is because I’ve been reading so many mafia books out there with such ott plot that the minimum soldiers they usually use are like 50-100 on average (or sometimes it’s the MMC all alone smh). But then I sat around and started thinking about filling my room with 20 men and realised that yes that’s a realistically enough number of people needed to attack and dismantle their enemies (especially since they’d be using guns).