Official Author Site for Allen Zadoff

"...a great book for dog lovers, those who love science-fiction or adventure,
and anyone in need of a good story about interspecies friendship.
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

Coming 4/28/20

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Wild & Chance, the new thriller by Allen Zadoff coming April 2020 from Disney-Hyperion

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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

I AM THE WEAPON, the first book in THE UNKOWN ASSASSIN series by Allen Zadoff

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

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

YA Fiction & Memoir

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

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