The US government has a deadly assignment – and James Matlock is the perfect man for the job.
James Matlock is a Vietnam veteran and college professor – with a disturbing past. The faceless men in Washington know his secrets. And they want him to investigate what seems to be a large-scale drugs and prostitution business.
Matlock is given a piece of silver paper with codes on it, and the name of the criminal organisation: Nimrod. He is soon trapped in a maze of unrelenting terror, as the people he cares for most are under threat. Would he have accepted the job if he’d known just what it would mean? Or that disclosure of the truth could cause such horror?
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 2/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 2/5
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Summary
Overall The Matlock Paper by Robert Ludlum 312 pages published in 1973. Ludlum was on a novel a year pace with this being his third. Another of his shorter stories. The main character, James Barbour Matlock, is an English professor at Carlyle University in Connecticut. Matlock is recruited by the Department of Justice to investigate a drug smuggling ring. The idea of a professor being the main character is indirectly brought back by Ludlum with David Webb, aka Jason Bourne much later in Ludlum’s career. Matlock uncovers a huge conspiracy. You can’t go wrong with his books. Even when they are not his very best works they are good.