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 |
| 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]