Spy School Blackout

By: Stuart Gibbs

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

In the thirteenth book in Stuart Gibbs’s New York Times bestselling Spy School series, superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley goes off the grid to eliminate a cybersecurity threat.

After a devious computer hacker pulls off the CIA’s worst-case scenario, shutting down power networks all over the world, Ben and his fellow spies-in-training are forced to make a harrowing emergency landing of their plane in Indonesia. While chaos begins to erupt around the planet, Ben deduces that his team is closer to the mysterious hacker’s base than anyone else. But with all computers and phones down, there’s no way to communicate with anyone at the CIA. On their latest mission to save the world, Ben and his friends face a conniving villain, assassins, pirates, sharks, and very big lizards in the most remote—and deadly—location of any spy school yet!

©2025 Stuart Gibbs (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio

Everything

I love this book so much, and I’m only on the 5th chapter!
You should definitely read this book.

Edit: I am now on the 10th chaper and am still loving it. I loved the twist in chapter 8

Don’t like Svetlawna

She is changing the dynamic for the worse, and is impacting how much I enjoy listening to these books. This used to be my favorite series but since he added her I just haven’t liked them as much. I know he needed to change things up by the 11th book but this was not helpful.

Good book

I like this book, but isn’t as good as the first few books in this series. This series is good for 8-11 year olds.

Everything

The plot was a little more complex than the other ones in this series and the characters were very much in the same category as the other books and I think the other books in the series were amazing too so I’m hoping they will have more books!

Spy School novels never disappoint!

I have been so pleased with the Spy School novels! This latest book doesn't disappoint. I won't give you any spoilers, but I am so pleased for more fun with Ben and the rest of his friends on their latest adventure to save the world. I hope Stuart Gibbs writes many more books for this series.

The part where Ben got washed up on the shore

It was a great book and it is very suspenseful.i really enjoyed everything and you can tell that a lot of effort was put in

Amazing

My grandma gave me my first spy school book when I was seven years old, and I haven’t been able to stop reading them since. In addition I’ve listened to the audiobooks, probably 50 times each, I never get bored of them. They’re really well put together and well written, while bringing up real life issues. Spy school blackout is just another amazing addition to the series, and I’d probably rank it my second or third favorite in the series.(just behind spy school Secret Service because that one was amazing!!!) I definitely recommend this series and will continue to watch out for the next book!!!!

The big advantage

I liked the shark bite and the
Scuba diving and trixe there it was a good story

Amazing

Honestly one of my favorites books series I am a little disappointed that Murray Hill wasn’t in the book he was my favorite character but still a very interesting read.

Great storyline

Like everything, the scenes, the locations come out and Emmers you into them I would recommend this book to all my friends