​ "Readers will not want to put this story down until the very end!" -School Library Connection
"An action-heavy adventure for plot-loving readers" ​-Kirkus Reviews

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✭"Zadoff shines in this violent, entertaining twist on the spy novel."  
--Publishers Weekly

The Unknown Assassin Series

"Fast, furious, and fun"  --Kirkus

"Auspicious action-adventure thrillers that will keep readers clamoring for more" —Booklist

✭"Fans of fast-paced action novels should love this" —VOYA

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"Boy makeover book are rare, and this one is a gem."  
--Publishers Weekly review of Food, Girls

YA Fiction & Memoir

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About Allen

Allen Zadoff is the author of the Boy Nobody/Unknown Assassin series as well as several acclaimed novels including Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have, winner of the Sid Fleischman Humor Award and a YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults. Allen's action-packed series debut, I AM THE WEAPON, is a page-turning thriller about a teenage assassin that is being developed for film by Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment. The book has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and VOYA. Kirkus Reviews called I AM THE WEAPON "fast, furious, and fun." Allen is a graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard University Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. His training as a super spy, however, has yet to be verified. 

If you want to get in touch, you can use Allen's contact page.

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The Bourne Identity meets James Bond meets Alex Rider meets Oh My God this book is so amazing my head is going to explode.   —Booktalk Blog

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Who is the Unknown Assassin?

The perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about, Boy Nobody shows up in a new high school, in a new town, under a new name, makes few friends and doesn't stay long. Just long enough for someone in his new friend's family to die -- of "natural causes." Mission accomplished, Boy Nobody disappears, and moves on to the next target. 

The Unknown Assassin series has been sold in more than a dozen countries, has received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and VOYA, and was a 2014 TOP TEN Pick for Reluctant Readers from YALSA. The first book, I AM THE WEAPON, is being developed as a major motion picture by Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment.  Find out what all the excitement is about now!

"When Batman was a little kid, he wanted to grow up to be half as badass as The Unknown Assassin."
--Barry Lyga, NY Times bestselling author of 
the I Hunt Killers series

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Children's Publishing
Sarah Davies
Greenhouse Literary Agency
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United Talent Agency
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Adult Publishing
Stephen Barbara
Inkwell Management
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