Jon Stock

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name = Jon Stock

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occupation = Author and Columnist
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debut_works = The Riot Act
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Jon Stock is a British author and journalist who also writes a column called "The Last Word" for The Week magazine in India.

He is currently editor of the Weekend section of the Daily Telegraph in the UK. He previously worked in New Delhi for two years, as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and has also lived in Cochin, Kerala. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife and three children.

In July 2008, he signed a three book deal with Blue Door, a new HarperCollins imprint [cite web
url =http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/News/Pages/The_Blue_Door_Opens.aspx
title =The Blue Door Opens
accessdate =2008-08-28
publisher =Harper Collins] , for "a good six-figure sum", according to "The Bookseller" cite web
url =http://www.thebookseller.com/news/63055-janson-smith-opens-blue-door.html
title =Janson-Smith opens Blue Door
accessdate =2008-08-28
publisher =The Book Seller.com] (15/7/08). The first book, a spy novel called "Dead Spy Running", will be published in July 2009. Its publisher, Patrick Janson-Smith, told "The Bookseller": "John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne - it's bloody good. He has reinvented the spy novel for the 21st century." He has written two other books, both of them spy novels: "The Riot Act", published by Serpent's Tail 1997, and "The Cardamom Club", published by Blackamber in 2003 (now part of Arcadia Books). "The Cardamom Club" was also published in India (2004) by Penguin Books. "The Riot Act" was shortlisted by the Crime Writers' Association for its best first novel award, and has been published by Gallimard in France as part of its acclaimed "serie noir" imprint.

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