Clive Hopkins joined the Royal Navy at the age of fifteen and served for ten years. Upon leaving the Royal Navy, he emigrated to Toronto, Canada, where he served as an auxiliary po...view moreClive Hopkins joined the Royal Navy at the age of fifteen and served for ten years. Upon leaving the Royal Navy, he emigrated to Toronto, Canada, where he served as an auxiliary police officer.
Returning to the United Kingdom, he joined the International Publishing Company’s industrial division as a staff writer, subsequently becoming editor and then group editor of three titles in the scientific/technical list.
Since then he has published a naval trilogy about the Korean War, well received by the cognoscenti, and the first book in the ongoing Detective Inspector Dibs Beacon series of crime novels, An Appropriate Death.view less