I have received a lot of messages from a lot of people wanting to know about this book. So I will not draw things out any longer. Here is the new cover and title:
And here is the synopsis:
When the seasoned adult spies of the Hale family mysteriously disappear on a mission to China, Ben Ripley and his fellow spies-in-training head east to discover what happened to them—and find themselves up against a villainous plot that will take them from the skyscrapers of Shanghai to the ancient ruins of the Great Wall to the remote regions of the Gobi desert.
It will be available on October 6. Click here to pre-order it! (Although a lot of sites may not have it ready for pre-order yet. They will soon, though.)
Now, here are the answers to a few questions I am sure I will get:
That’s it? That’s all the information you are going to share with us?
Yes. The less you know about a book before you read it, the more fun it is the read. I don’t want to spoil anything.
Can’t you tell me anything else? Even if I ask nicely?
Sorry, no. And if you send me an email or post a comment asking for more info, I will simply direct you back to this page.
Will there be an exclusive edition of this book with bonus content?
Probably, although that isn’t guaranteed yet. If there is, I will post about it.
Now that you have written Goes South, Goes North and Goes east, will there be a Spy School Goes West?
I don’t know. Strange as it might seem, I write the titles of my books last, not first. I wrote this book because I wanted to set a book in China, not because I wanted to call a book ‘Spy School Goes East.’ That title just ended up working better than any of the other options.
Pouya –
First of all, let me say that I do not agree with this war and do not support the government of my country for initiating it.
Unfortunately, that makes it rather difficult to even begin to try to figure out how to tell a story set in Iran. The first thing I like to do when researching is visit the country I am writing about, and I have no idea when I would ever be able to visit your country. Beyond that, it is very politically tricky to figure out how to tell a story set there, and since the politics are constantly changing, I don;t know what will be going on there in a few years when the book would come out.
So basically, I am not against the idea of setting a book in Iran. I just don;t know how to do it at this time.
I am your Greek fan again.
If you can’t see the plan I sent you, please inform me so I know
Thanasis –
I cannot let people post links on my website. If you want to connect directly to me, please use the email address on this site.
It looks like that link involves ChatGPT. As an author, I am opposed to the use of ChatGPT or any AI in any creative endeavor.
Mr Gibbs,
Will you ever have a Spy School plot where the protagonists lose? Huge fan of all your works, and I love the different explorations and journeys that the characters go on, but the excitement is a bit spoiled, because the main characters’ victory is always guaranteed. Would you ever do a 2-part book where the heroes lose in the first but then come back stronger in the second?
Thanks, John Pork
John Pork –
I write escapist fiction. There is enough bad news in the world today. Yes, my heroes always win, but that is theoretically a good thing. I wouldn’t want to read a mystery where the detective fails to solve a case, or to see a movie where the good spy fails and the bad guy wins.
That said, I have, on occasion, written a book where things end on a cliffhanger and you have to wait until the next book to see how the heroes survive. I have discovered that most people do not actually enjoy that.
Hi. Do you know what the last book of this series will be? I mean like the number. Also, I think that you should release a spy school files kind of book. You could put things like fact filrs about thr characters, pictures, Info about the school, and even bonus content. Please consider my idea and email me if you decide to do this. Thank you, mem
mem –
I do not know how many books will be in the SS series.
There is a lot of bonus content like you are asking for in the SS Entrance Exam.