Pazuzu - Abeyance

Pazuzu (pahzoo'zoo) - king of demons in Assyrian mythology. Abeyance (u'beyuns) - suspension. PAZUZU â€" ABEYANCE is the last book in Matthew Sawyer's Pazuzu Trilogy. The last book follows the demon, Pazuzu, in the shadow of the Promised Land's destruction. Achieving its goal, Pazuzu has claimed a human body. The demon steals the frame of a boy and makes the mother a missionary. Before Tamara Stoughnt dies, she proclaims her demon-possessed son is the messiah - the reincarnation of the Chosen's eviscerated Mortal God. Meanwhile, the younger Cortras brother is arrested and beaten by the Chosen's military and sent to a detention camp outside Capital. At the camp, Hen Cortras meets real-life heathens. The prisoners escape the Chosen's military and Hen joins their march against the Chosen's Promised Land. The heathen attack has already begun behind the monumental Wall and Capital burns. Pazuzu and Benedict Ishkott, his heathen minister, now cross the fires of Capital 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 monsters.