Mark Sullivan

“Hence 8197. He liked 97 because it was the largest two-digit prime number, and he loved 81 because it was absolutely the only number out of all the literally infinite possibilities whose square root was also the sum of its digits.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“normal attire of Salomon shoes, Origin jeans, a dark green Triple Aught Design sweater, brown Kühl jacket, Gatorz sunglasses, and Hoyt ball cap.”
― Jack Carr, Only the Dead

“And of the thirty major conflicts under way in the world, twenty-eight involved Muslim governments”
― Brad Thor, The Last Patriot

“The most expensive single undertaking of the Second World War was the B-29 Bomber, the Superfortress. The second most expensive was the Manhattan Project, the massive, unprecedented effort to invent and build the world’s first atomic bomb. But the third most expensive project of the war? Not a bomb, not a plane, not a tank, not a gun, not a ship. It was the Norden bombsight, the fifty-five-pound”
― Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War