Jon Stock

Jon Stock is a novelist and journalist. After reading English at Cambridge, he became was a freelance reporter, writing investigative features for The Observer, Private Eye, GQ, The Telegraph and The Independent. For two years, he was a foreign correspondent in New Delhi before returning to become Weekend Editor of the Telegraph in 2005. He became a fulltime author in 2015, writing psychological thrillers as JS Monroe and spy thrillers under his own name. Find Me, his first JS Monroe novel, has been translated into 14 languages. Dead Spy Running, part of the Daniel Marchant spy trilogy, was optioned by Warner Bros, with a screenplay written by Oscar-winner Stephen Gaghan. Jon is currently the Royal Literary Fund writing fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford and is a trustee of the Marlborough Literature Festival.