Quick Defense: Practical Self-Defense for Real-World Threats

by David Burnell

110 pages, Paperback

Published January 28, 2026

About the author

I grew up in York then read mathematics at Cambridge. After this I taught maths for four years in Ghana then took up Operational Research, applying maths to management problems. My professional career took in the National Coal Board and Thames Water.
On "retiring" I completed my PhD (on the deeper meaning of data from London's water meters) then took up writing fiction. My wife and I own a holiday cottage in Cornwall so we are learning about the area and my books are/will be set there.