Ziz is an adventure novel in the lyrical style of Dante's Divine Comedy. Tom Durante, after giving up on the priesthood, has no idea what to do with himself. He accepts a job with the strange and unstable Professor Enid, expecting nothing more than some simple translation work. What he finds instead is a world-spanning quest to find the mythical beast Behemoth, the sea monster Leviathan, and the great bird Ziz.