ALLEN ZADOFF
  • Home
  • Author Interview
  • Books
    • Wild & Chance Series >
      • Wild & Chance (#1)
      • Wild & Chance (#2): The Puppy War
    • The Unknown Assassin Series >
      • I AM THE WEAPON (#1)
      • I AM THE MISSION (#2)
      • I AM THE TRAITOR (#3)
      • Reviews
      • International Editions
    • Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have
    • My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies
    • Since You Left Me
    • Hungry: a memoir
  • Bio
  • FAQ
  • Contact/Author Visits
Picture
​"Readers will not want to put this story down until the very end!"
-School Library Journal

Wild & Chance by Allen Zadoff
Book 1 Paperback Edition
Picture
Wild & Chance: The Puppy War (Book 2)

Book 1 available now
Amazon
Barnes & Noble​
​Apple Books
​Indiebound

Read More
School and author visits
Picture
Picture
✭"Zadoff shines in this violent, entertaining twist on the spy novel."  
--Publishers Weekly
"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
I AM THE WEAPON, the first book in THE UNKOWN ASSASSIN series by Allen Zadoff
Book 1
I AM THE MISSION (The Unknown Assassin Book 2) by Allen Zadoff
Book 2
I AM THE TRAITOR, Book 3 of The Unknown Assassin Series by Allen Zadoff
Book 3

YA Fiction & Memoir

"Boy makeover book are rare, and this one is a gem."  
--Publishers Weekly review of Food, Girls
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Allen Zadoff
My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies by Allen Zadoff
SInce You Left Me, the new novel by Allen Zadoff
Hungry, a memoir by Allen Zadoff

Picture

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.

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

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

Available Worldwide

Rights Inquiries

Children's Publishing
Sarah Davies
Greenhouse Literary Agency
SarahD [at] GreenhouseLit.com

Film & TV Rights 
Mary Pender
United Talent Agency
PenderM [at] UnitedTalent.com
Adult Publishing
Stephen Barbara
Inkwell Management
Stephen [at] InkwellManagement.com

Follow me on GOODREADS
Read me on AMAZON
© 2020 (What a year!) Allen Zadoff
  • Home
  • Author Interview
  • Books
    • Wild & Chance Series >
      • Wild & Chance (#1)
      • Wild & Chance (#2): The Puppy War
    • The Unknown Assassin Series >
      • I AM THE WEAPON (#1)
      • I AM THE MISSION (#2)
      • I AM THE TRAITOR (#3)
      • Reviews
      • International Editions
    • Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have
    • My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies
    • Since You Left Me
    • Hungry: a memoir
  • Bio
  • FAQ
  • Contact/Author Visits