Is there something faster than the speed of light?

WHAT!?!?!?
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Don't insult my intelligence, I got a 132 on an IQ test.

A. Conversations with a psychologist
B. Numbers of wars in history
C. Rating of chess
D. Oreo's in a box
I'm not a physicist, but have a pure math education, so this might not be accurate: Light rays move along so called geodetic lines (the shortest connection between two points). In the presence of gravity, which causes curvature of space, these lines will no longer be straight (yes, that's no longer the kind of geometry you are used to). In case of a black hole, the curvature is so strong that geodetic lines no longer leave the black hole. But according to relativity theory, the speed of light doesn't change and there is nothing faster.
Very old, but excellent book which doesn't require math background: https://www.amazon.com/ABC-Relativity-Bertrand-Russell/dp/045160993X.
"The speed of light is the fastest thing in the universe" we are all told. But we are also told, "Nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole". So my question is, Is there something faster than the speed of light? If, somehow, you can convert a black hole's energy into speed, the resulting speed will probably be much faster than the speed of light.