TY - SER
KW - engineers
KW - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
KW - geologists
KW - con artists
KW - steel industry
KW - oil industry
AU - Robin [Robert Lowell] Moore Jr.
AB - 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.
C1 - 1940s-50s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; William Penn Hotel; Civic Arena; Oakland; Carnegie Museum; Syria Mosque
C4 - Thriller; Adventure; Road
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Written with Sidney Levine.
N2 - 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.
PB - Arbor House
PP - New York
PY - 1978
RN - Robin Moore (1925-2008) was born in Boston and educated at Harvard University. Moore was a World War II veteran and the author of several dozen books, including <em>The Green Berets</em>, <em>The French Connection</em>, and with Xaviera Hollander, <em>The Happy Hooker</em>.
EP - 281 p.
TI - The Big Paddle
ER -