David H. Rothman
Bio: The Solomon Scandals is fiction, but David Rothman did report on such stories as the secret investment that one senator's "blind trust" had held in a CIA-occupied building in Arlington, Virginia.
"The Case of The Missing Cafeteria" also came to light through his newspaper work. A cafeteria at the Environmental Protection Agency had gone AWOL despite a lease calling for one. It would have cost more than five-hundred-thousand dollars to build.
Rothman's reporting, under grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, led to a congressional investigation and reforms in the federal office-leasing program. Both NBC and ABC evening news broadcasted Rothman's GSA-discoveries.
Author of six nonfiction books, Rothman is a native of the Washington area, where he lives today with his wife, Carly. The Solomon Scandals is his debut novel, started three decades ago on a Nixon-era electric typewriter.
Visit Rothman on the Web at SolomonScandals.com. You can reach him via email at dr@solomonscandals.com. The SolomonScandals.com site includes links on related topics ranging from journalism to building collapses.
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The Solomon Scandals is David Rothman's Washington novel with a 'tude to go along with the suspense.
Scandals treats D.C. as a white-collar factory town. Its satire is unsparing about the nuts and bolts of political corruption, in addition to the media variety.
The protagonist, a young reporter named Jonathan Stone, has pitted himself against one of the Washington Telegram's major advertisers. Seymour Solomon is a real estate tycoon?an ex-bricklayer with two fingertips missing but a knack ... 
