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✭STARRED REVIEWS FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND VOYA✭
Top Ten Pick for Reluctant Readers from YALSA
Winner of the 2015 Kentucky Bluegrass Award

I AM THE WEAPON, the first book in THE UNKNOWN ASSASSIN series by Allen Zadoff
(formerly called Boy Nobody. 
To read about the title change, visit the FAQ

Call him Boy Nobody.

He is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He 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. 

But when he's assigned to the mayor of New York City, things change. The daughter seems so much like him; the mayor reminds him of his father. And when memories and questions surface, his handlers at The Program are watching. Because somewhere, deep inside Boy Nobody, is somebody: the kid he once was, the teen who wants normal things, like a real home and parents; a young man who wants out. And he just might want those things badly enough to sabotage The Program's next mission.

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Awards & Honors

  • 2016 Illinois Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award
  • 2016 Indiana Eliot Rosewater Book Award
  • 2015 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner
  • 2016 Missouri Gateway Book Award
  • 2016 Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award
  • 2015 Texas Tayshas List- Top Ten
  • Top Ten Picks for Reluctant Readers- YALSA
  • Northern Ireland Book Award finalist
  • International Thriller Awards finalist
  • Winner, Best Adventure Novel, Wirral Grammar School UK
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  • 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