Synopsis: Dust Jacket: Flight -- soaring away from the world she knows -- transports Martia Deane on what the reader soon realizes is not an ordinary airplane trip. Tension mounts with an increasing awareness that Martia does not know and cannot control her destination, until at last the reader's premonition grows to certainty that Martia and the other passengers are on the ultimate journey, that they are in fact dead. A story of the near hereafter.