The Matlock Paper
1973 novel by Robert Ludlum
0-8037-5535-XDewey Decimal
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.
Publication history
- 1973, US, Dial Press ISBN 0246107529, Pub date April 1973, Hardback
- 1974, US, Dell ISBN 0-440-15538-X, Pub date April 15, 1974, Paperback
- 1973, UK, Grafton ISBN 0-246-10752-9 Pub date July 9, 1973, Hardback
- 2002, UK, HarperCollins ISBN 0-586-04067-6, Pub date April 15, 2002, Paperback
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Novels by Robert Ludlum
- The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971)
- The Osterman Weekend (1972)
- The Matlock Paper (1973)
- Trevayne (1973)
- The Cry of the Halidon (1974)
- The Rhinemann Exchange (1974)
- The Road to Gandolfo (1975)
- The Gemini Contenders (1976)
- The Chancellor Manuscript (1977)
- The Holcroft Covenant (1978)
- The Parsifal Mosaic (1982)
- The Aquitaine Progression (1984)
- The Icarus Agenda (1988)
- The Road to Omaha (1992)
- The Scorpio Illusion (1993)
- The Apocalypse Watch (1995)
- The Prometheus Deception (2000)
- The Sigma Protocol (2001)
- The Janson Directive (2002)
- The Tristan Betrayal (2003)
- The Ambler Warning (2005)
- The Bancroft Strategy (2006)
- The Bourne Identity (1980)
- The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)
- The Matarese Circle (1979)
- The Matarese Countdown (1997)
- Covert-One series
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