@book{433,
  keywords = {engineers, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, geologists, con artists, steel industry, oil industry},
  author = {Robin [Robert Lowell] Moore Jr.},
  title = {The Big Paddle},
  abstract = {Cliff Thompson, a post-World War II con artist, suckers Pittsburgh geologists and engineers into aiding him with the biggest scam of his career: wildcat oil drilling in Oklahoma. Cliff's motivation is to scheme his girlfriend's father, who killed his own father in a rigged card game.},
  year = {1978},
  pages = {281 p.},
  publisher = {Arbor House},
  address = {New York},
  note = {Written with Sidney Levine.},
  language = {English},
}