Education
He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, England.
He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, England.
He has three brothers one of whom is Andrew Stock former president of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Stock is a full-time author and journalist. He was the editor of the Weekend section of the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom 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.
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 New Delhi, India, for a period of two years, as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and has also lived in Cochin, Kerala.
Warner Brothers 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 McGrath to direct the movie along with Stephen Gaghan to write the screen play. lieutenant was initially reported that after the shooting of McGrath"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/South and A Horrible Way to Die. In 2014, McGrath has bought the movie rights with his own company, Wonderland Sound and Vision, and the film is currently in development.
