Halfway to Miami International, comfortably away from the switchboard where Queems or Queems’s toadies were known to listen in, Hallorann stopped at a shopping center Laundromat and called United Air Lines. Flights to Denver? There was one due out at 6:36 P.M. Could the gentleman make that? Hallorann looked at his watch, which showed 6:02, and said he could.
St. Petersburg is about 4 hours from Miami International. Work of fiction or not, traveling that distance that fast is literally impossible.
