Close Distance Kills

Spycraft for Self-Defense Series

By: P. J. Agness

Narrated by: P. J. Agness

Close Distance Kills is built on a hard truth most people never see until it’s too late, you don’t lose your options when the violence starts, you lose them when someone quietly steals your distance.

Predators and pressure actors don’t rush first, they close first, using conversation, friendliness, confusion, and social expectations as cover to step into touching range, because once they’re close, they can control your movement, your posture, and your choices with almost no effort. This doctrine applies intelligence tradecraft to personal security, treating distance as a boundary, not a feeling, and training you to defend space without acting paranoid, without bravado, and without escalating the room.

You’ll learn how to spot range theft early, how to use angles and barriers to deny access, how to keep your hips and hands positioned for exits, and how to end contact the moment distance becomes contested. If you’ve ever felt that instinctive “they’re too close” signal and ignored it, this is the corrective, calm, procedural, and brutally effective.

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