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Allen Zadoff is the author of the new middle grade action thriller Wild & Chance. The second book in the series Wild & Chance: The Puppy War is coming in 2021 from LBYR. His previous series The Unknown Assassin earned starred reviews and is being developed as a feature film by Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment.

Allen is a graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard University Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Visit him on the web at www.allenzadoff.com. ...more

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	Boy Nobody (The Unknown Assassin, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 7,908 ratings — published 2013 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am the Mission (The Unknown Assassin, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 2,815 ratings — published 2014 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am the Traitor (The Unknown Assassin, #3) 4.10 avg rating — 1,788 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have 3.75 avg rating — 1,550 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin 3.76 avg rating — 579 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies 3.62 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Since You Left Me 3.62 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boy Nobody FREE PREVIEW Edition (The Unknown Assassin) 4.29 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boy Nobody Sampler 4.37 avg rating — 54 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild & Chance (Wild & Chance #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Q: What was your inspiration for writing The Unknown Assassin Series?

A: The Unknown Assassin did not come to me as a story, but as a character. In this case, the character was a sixteen-year-old boy. He told me he had no name and that he traveled from place to place, assuming a new identity on every mission. He said his job was to befriend the children of high-value targets so he could get clo Read more of this blog post »

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“Grief. This is what it does to people. It makes them strangers to themselves.”
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“It's the kind of leather seat that pulls you in, begs to to relax against it.”
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“When in doubt, emulate.”
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