Pazuzu (pahzoo'zoo) - king of demons in Assyrian mythology.
Abeyance (u'beyuns) - suspension.
PAZUZU – ABEYANCE is the last book in Matthew Sawyer's Pazuzu Trilogy.
Achieving its goal, Pazuzu has claimed a body. The demon steals the frame of a boy and makes the mother a missionary. Before the old mother dies, she proclaims her possessed son is the messiah - the reincarnation of the Chosen's eviscerated Mortal God. Meanwhile, the younger Cortras is arrested by the Chosen's military and sent to a detention camp outside Khetam.
At the camp, Hen Cortras meets real-life heathens. The prisoners escape the camp and Hen joins a march against the Chosen's Promised Land. The heathen attack has already begun behind the monumental Wall and Khetam burns. Pazuzu and Benedict Gage, his heathen minister, now cross the fires of Khetam in search of the flock gathered by the mother of the possessed boy. The alien gods are now aware of the demon moving through the world and they send... More > monsters.< Less