Brain Worm: The Misadventures of Max Bowman, Volume 5

Joel Canfield

Apr 2026 · joined at the hip worldwide

About this ebook

Broke and not getting any younger, Max Bowman has officially hit bottom. Dogged by trolls and an angry ex, he flees to California, where he ends up running a detective agency with a dead man's name on it. That's when a new client who's not quite right in the head shows up - because he thinks the government is breaking into his apartment to move food around in his refrigerator. It's also when zombie assassins start showing up wherever Max goes, killing everyone on site except him. But wait, there's more! From a mysterious start-up in Silicon Valley to a deadly chase on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, Max is once again in search of the source of all the weirdness - and the trail shockingly takes him directly to the White House, where the president has big, beautiful plans for Max. Which is why many people are saying this is the best Max adventure yet - and that's not fake news.

About the author

A novelist, screenwriter and ghostwriter, Canfield has lived in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Miami Beach, Auckland, New Zealand, and his own personal Pennsylvania trifecta, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre and his hometown of Bethlehem. He now resides in Hermosa Beach, California with his writer-editor wife Lisa and socially awkward dog Ivy. 

Canfield’s books include Dark Sky, Blue Fire, Red Earth and White Rain (the first four books in his Max Bowman series); What's Driving You???: How I Overcame Abuse and Learned to Lead in the NBA (co-authored with Keyon Dooling and Lisa Canfield); Pill Mill: My Years of Money, Madness, Sex and Drugs (co-authored with Christian Valdes and Lisa Canfield); and 226: How I Became the First Blind Person to Kayak the Grand Canyon (co-authored with Lonnie Bedwell, in addition to ghostwriting numerous books for clients. Blue Fire was a 2016 Silver Honoree in the Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards as well as a semi-finalist in the Book Life Prize in Fiction competition. Red Earth was a 2017 Gold Honoree in the Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards. He has also co-written six TV movies with his wife Lisa.