Cliff Hitchen

Cliff Hitchen was born and raised in Merseyside. On leaving school in Huyton, he joined the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo in 1962, just as the ’60s music explosion occurred, which seemed to start in Liverpool, before rapidly spreading across the world.

Cliff’s first inclination to write a novel was at the age of 13, but only got as far as the third chapter! However, he likes to travel, and the rekindled urge emerged on a visit with his late wife and three sons to Port Vendres, in France, on the Mediterranean coast, adjacent to the Spanish border. The embryo of Approach By Stealth became a reality when pen was put to paper on his retirement in Weymouth, where he now lives with his second wife.