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I Am the Messenger is YA mystery novel written by Australian author Markus Zusak and published in 2002. The novel was released in Australia as The Messenger. Written from the point of view of nineteen-year-old down-on-his-luck cab driver Ed Kennedy, the story follows Ed as he accidentally foils a bank robbery and becomes embroiled in a violent mystery after he receives an unaddressed envelope containing an ace of diamonds with three addresses and times of day written on it. Ed travels to the addresses and helps out the tangled lives of their occupants. Further playing cards appear in his life, and Ed continues to unravel their mysteries. The message of these cards and who is sending them is revealed at the end of the novel in a postmodern twist: The author Zusak himself has been sending Ed on these quests, and Ed is at the heart of the message itself. I am the Messenger won the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award in 2003.
