Stephen Matthews

Stephen Rabey Matthews.

Stephen was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands in 1938 and following the barbaric German invasion of the Channel Islands, in 1940, he was illegally deported to Germany by late 1942, with his father and mother. After the being liberated by Free French forces in 1945, the family returned to Guernsey where Stephen was educated and then later completed his business training in London. Having had such a dramatic childhood, Stephen has gone on to do some extraordinary things since. In 1960, He joined the elite British Colonial Police Force in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia,) and received many awards and commendations for his work, dedication and commitment in the aftermath of the Belgian Congo débâcle. This time in his life included the investigation of such things as witchcraft murders, making contact with the 'Wild Geese' mercenaries n the Congo, the tracking down of British army deserter and spy, and also taking part in the search for the crashed plane of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, still the subject of controversy today. Since his Colonial days, he was appointed a Director and General Manager for Shell Marketing in the Channel Islands and later as a Director for a major Insurance and Financial Services Company in both Guernsey and Jersey. He has run his own international management consultancy company. Having discovered his mother's war diaries and personal papers hidden away in an old family bible, he wrote the book ' The Day The Nazis Came;' documenting the family's traumatic experiences in various German concentration camps. He has just finished his latest book which is called 'Murder Witchcraft and the Killing of Wildlife'; with a subtitle of 'Memoirs of a Police Officer in the Heart of Africa. These days, he divides his time between Brittany in France and Southern China, whilst working on this and other writing projects. Find out more on his website: http://stephen-r-matthews.wixsite.com/author.