Paddy Quinn, "the boy who ate rattlesnakes" and lost a hand to a cannon blast during the Mexican War, returns as a famous Civil War correspondent and battlefield sketch artist, in James Alexander Thom's new novel, Fire in the Water . Thom is a prize-winning historical novelist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Follow the River . The central action in Fire in the Water is the tragic explosion and burning of the paddlewheel steamboat SULTANA...