Jon Stock

Jon Stock is the author of spy novels and currently works at the Daily Telegraph at Executive Head of Life and Weekend. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife and three children.

After reading English at Cambridge University, he worked as a freelance journalist in London, writing features for most of Britain's national newspapers, as well as contributing regularly to BBC Radio 4. He was also chosen for Carlton TV's acclaimed scriptwriters course. Between 1998 and 2000, he was Delhi correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. On his return to Britain, he worked on various Saturday sections of the paper before taking up a staff job as editor of the flagship Weekend section in 2005. He left Weekend and the Telegraph in 2010 to finish writing the trilogy and returned to the staff of the Telegraph in June 2014. He wrote the Last Word column in The Week Magazine (India) from 1995, when he lived in Cochin, South India, to 2012, and is currently working on a standalone psychological thriller as well as another Daniel Marchant novel.