HYPERSONIC

Booksurge, 2005.  ISBN 1-4196-1785-0.  Trade soft cover, 433 pages.  Good; wraps show edge and cover wear, colour chipping, creases and a horizontal scratch on front; full-length vertical crease on rear wrap.  Binding sound; interior clean and unmarked with white pages; small ink spots on bottom page block.  Inscribed to prior owner, signed and dated by author on title page.  ‘TransGlobal Airlines has joined the battle of domestic airlines as an aggressive and dynamic company.  When it adds to its fleet the world’s first hypersonic passenger jet, capable of trans-oceanic, Mach 6, flight, its popularity and stock skyrockets.  The airline announces its first-ever New Year’s Eve champagne flight – Los Angeles to Tokyo to Sydney to Los Angeles – with gala celebrations of two new years.  Events begin to unfold both in the air and on the ground.  Blackmail, murder, and greed entwine, forcing the president of TransGlobal to confront the airline’s dark and secretive past.  What no one realizes is that the Russian mafia has infiltrated the Board of Directors.  Will organized crime and possible sabotage conspire to bring down the HSCT-797 hypersonic jet … and destroy the company in the process?’ (from rear wrap)