First paperback printing per ISFDB, meets all points. Tight, flat, square book. Edge wear, chipped wraps, toned pages, creased spine. Owner's marks.

Engaging science fiction story about a hypersonic jet that is propelled into space by its' sabotaged rocket engines. As the listless plane orbits around earth, NASA sends a shuttle to rescue the 100+ passengers trapped on the doomed flight. With oxygen reserves quickly depleting, the challenge of how to rescue the passengers given the plane will burn up upon re-entry into earth's atmosphere and a saboteur on the loose who controls the fate of the flight, Orbit is a suspense laden book that can't be put down.