[6] 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.

[1] It has been published in France by Éditions Gallimard as Lutte Des Casses (2002)[10] as part of its acclaimed Série Noire[11] imprint.

[17] 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.

[18] Stock wrote a detailed article in the Daily Telegraph,[19] 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.

[19] Stock's sixth novel, Find Me, was published by Head of Zeus under the pen name J. S. Monroe[20][21] in the UK in February 2017,[22] and by Harlequin MIRA in the US in March 2017.

[23] 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.

A psychological thriller, it is about a successful doctor in London whose life and marriage implode when his past as a medical student catches up with him.

He also accessed Sargant's papers at the Wellcome Collection and the recently released documents at National Archives in Kew.

[36] They signed on Charlie's Angels director McG[36] to direct the movie along with Stephen Gaghan to write the screen play.

In March 2012, it was reported that Jonathan Levine was in talks with Warner Bros to direct Dead Spy Running,[40][41] 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.