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Author | Robert Ludlum |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller novel |
Publisher | Dial Press |
Publication date
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April 1973 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 312 pp |
ISBN | |
OCLC | 532257 |
813.54 |
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.
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.