Manx- Destroy the Car

  “I need to know how to kill him. He died in prison, but it didn’t stick.”

  “You already know the answer to that one, I think.”
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  “The car,” Vic said. “The Wraith.”

  “Yeah. When the car fell apart, he fell apart. At some point someone probably yanked the engine right out of it, and he dropped dead at last. But then the engine was put back and the car was fixed up, and there you go. As long as the car is roadworthy, so is he.”

  “So if I destroy the car . . . I destroy him.”

  Maggie took a long suck on her cigarette. The tip of it was the brightest thing in the dark. “Bet on it.”

- Christmasland: The Library