{"product_id":"9781935628569","title":"Fire In The Water","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eFire in the Water.\u003c\/i\u003e Thom is a prize-winning historical novelist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Follow the River.\u003cp\u003e The central action in \u003ci\u003eFire in the Water\u003c\/i\u003e is the tragic explosion and burning of the paddle wheel steamboat SULTANA near Memphis in the last days of the Civil War, killing some 1,800 home bound Yankee survivors of the hellish Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e But the undercurrent of the novel is the national mourning for assassinated President Lincoln, whose corpse was en route on his funeral train to Springfield, Illinois at the time of the disaster. War correspondent Quinn, newly wed in New Orleans, is on board the SULTANA with his bride, assigned to report and illustrate Lincoln's funeral and burial for Harper's Weekly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When Quinn and an Indiana-born prison survivor he's interviewing are blown overboard into the cold, flooded Mississippi by the midnight boiler explosion, it is their grit and resourcefulness, but mostly their vow to get to Lincoln's funeral, that keep them alive as hundreds perish around them in the flame-lit night.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue River Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048547696880,"sku":"9781935628569","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935628569_p0.jpg?v=1763657160","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935628569","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}