The Matlock Paper

The Matlock Paper
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
Dewey Decimal	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.^[1]^[2]

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

References

Novels by Robert Ludlum

Novels	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)

Bourne series	The Bourne Identity (1980) The Bourne Supremacy (1986) The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)

Matarese series	The Matarese Circle (1979) The Matarese Countdown (1997)

See also	Covert-One series

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