The Matlock Paper
The Matlock Paper is the third suspense novel by Robert Ludlum, in which a solitary protagonist comes face to face with a massive criminal conspiracy.
|  First edition | |
| Author | Robert Ludlum | 
|---|---|
| Country | United States | 
| Language | English | 
| Genre | Thriller novel | 
| Publisher | Dial Press | 
| Publication date | April 1973 | 
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) | 
| Pages | 312 pp | 
| ISBN | 0-8037-5535-X | 
| OCLC | 532257 | 
| 813.54 | |
Its protagonist, James Barbour Matlock, is an English professor in his 30s who is recruited by the Department of Justice to investigate a drug smuggling ring, led by a mysterious figure named "Nimrod". The novel is set at the fictitious Carlyle University in Connecticut, a thinly disguised Wesleyan University in Middletown, Ludlum's alma mater.
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