Stock is a full-time author and journalist. He was the editor of the Weekend section of The Daily Telegraph in the UK from 2005 till 2010. He left the paper in January 2010 to complete a trilogy of spy thrillers and returned in March 2013 to edit the paper's online books channel, before rejoining the staff as Weekend editor in June 2014. He left the paper in October 2015 to pursue his writing career. Additionally he was a columnist for The Week magazine in India, contributing to their column "The Last Word" from 1996 until 2012. He previously worked in Delhi, India, for a period of two years, as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, and has also lived in Cochin, Kerala.
''Legoland trilogy''
Stock signed a three-book deal in July 2008 with Blue Door, a new HarperCollins imprint, for "a good six-figure sum", according to The Bookseller. The spy novel series, all starring MI6 officer Daniel Marchant, commenced with Dead Spy Running, which was published on 7 January 2010. The second in the series was Games Traitors Play, published on 29 September 2011. The last in the series, Dirty Little Secret, was released on 5 July 2012. While researching for Dirty Little Secret he came across the Seraj, an Iranian fast attack craft based on the high-performance British speedboat, the Bradstone Challenger. Stock wrote a detailed article in the Daily Telegraph, on how the Iranians plan to use it as a fast attack boat against the United States Navy in any future conflict in the Strait of Hormuz.
''Find Me''
Stock's sixth novel, Find Me, was published by Head of Zeus under the pen nameJ. S. Monroe in the UK in February 2017, and by Harlequin MIRA in the US in March 2017. Find Me is a 'high concept' psychological thriller featuring Jar, a young Irish writer, who is convinced that his girlfriend, who committed suicide five years ago at university, might still be alive. Publishers Marketplace has mentioned Find Me as having "notes of Harlan Coben's Tell No One and Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth". Find Me has been translated into 14 languages till now.
''To Snare a Spy''
To Snare a Spy is Stock's seventh novel, published 20 April 2017 by The Nare Hotel Co Ltd, Cornwall, UK. It is a spy thriller featuring protagonist Noah, a teenager who learns of a Russian mole in the British government.
''Forget My Name''
Stock's eighth novel, Forget My Name, was published by Head of Zeus under the pen name J. S. Monroe on 4 October 2018. This book is about a woman who loses her memory, and only remembers her home address, and has lost all her ids after her bag is stolen.
''The Other You''
Stock's ninth novel, The Other You, was published by Head of Zeus under the pen name J. S. Monroe on 9 January 2020. It's a psychological thriller about a super recogniser called Kate, who suspects that her partner has been replaced by his doppelgänger.
Movie deal
acquired the movie rights to the Dead Spy Running franchise in October 2008 to make the first of a proposed three-movie franchise. They signed on Charlie's Angels director McG to direct the movie along with Stephen Gaghan to write the screen play. It was initially reported that after the shooting of McG's last movie Terminator Salvation, he would be taking up the shooting of the remake Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but with the cancelling of this movie by Disney it had appeared that Dead Spy Running was the next movie to be taken up. In March 2012, it was reported that Jonathan Levine was in talks with Warner Bros to direct Dead Spy Running, but in September 2012 Warner Brothers announced that they had hired Adam Wingard to direct, and Simon Barrett to rewrite the screenplay of Dead Spy Running. Wingard and Barrett have worked together on indie horror movies, including You're Next, V/H/S and A Horrible Way to Die. In 2014, McG has bought the movie rights with his own company, Wonderland Sound and Vision, and the film is currently in development.
