The Solomon Scandals A Washington newspaper novel by David Rothman

The Solomon Scandals’ first three chapters for free—glass shark tank mention included

I’ll always remem­ber the glass shark tank that one of Mac’s foes sug­gested for the Sans Souci restau­rant on Sev­en­teenth Street, a VIP-gawker’s Eden. An embit­tered politi­cian, he wanted the tank’s occu­pant to be named “Lit­tle Mac.” The Sans Souci orig­i­nally threat­ened to ban­ish the man to Lit­tle Tav­ern ham­burger shops, but McWilliams caught wind of the customer’s mal­ice and was cap­ti­vated. Mac said he would only lunch at the Sans Souci if it brought in the baby shark.

You’ve got sev­eral ways to check out the shark tank men­tion and other good­ies in Scan­dals’ first three chap­ters for free—via the Web or your Kin­dle, iPhone or other gizmo.

1. If you own a Kin­dle or an iPhone or Touch with Kin­dle soft­ware installed (instal­la­tion link), just go to the Ama­zon pur­chas­ing page for Scan­dals. Then look to the right and click to get the chap­ters sent for free.

Yep, they’ll auto­mat­i­cally show up on the list of books and other items within the Kin­dle or the iPod/iPhone app.

2. If you want to read the free chap­ters on the Web, just go here and see some things not in the actual book—links to infor­ma­tion on the Sans Souci and other places and peo­ple. What’s more, in cer­tain cases, you’ll see images.

3. You can also down­load an ePub-format file of the three chap­ters, from Feedbooks.

A few more details: Above, you’re see­ing Scan­dals as it looks on the iPod Touch. It is not in the “full-screen” view when you’ll see noth­ing but text from the book on your screen. One pos­i­tive is that you can change the size of the type.

To get the old-fashioned paper book—or the elec­tronic ver­sion: Yes, we’ve got buy­ing infor­ma­tion. The com­plete e-book ver­sion of Scan­dals sells dis­counted for less than $5.