I AM MAX BOOK. A young Sasquatch in search of the meaning of life.

Max is a Sasquatch’m also known as Sasquatch, Big Foot, The Big Man, Guardian of the Forest or many other such urban legends. Max was separated from his parents when he was five-years old and came into the care of Derek ‘Dak’ Deklan an on-the-lam white-hat mercenary who put a few slugs in Idi Amin’s sweat butt, seeks shelter with his surfing buddy, philosophical surfboard shaper, Medford Haley at a building project in the California desert. See DYING BREED. Brought up by two First Nations surfers, Max does what he can to assimilate with his human benefactors and protectors and picks up and adapts the rest of their human traits by watching television twenty-four hours a day.
Max is subsequently reunited with his parents in MAX: Hide and Seek Champion of the world as a young teenager. To be with his kind. Which makes the Sasquatch’m community understandably stand-offish and suspicious.

I AM MAX finds a lovesick sixteen year-old Max looking for love in all the wrong places which leads him into a massive subterranean world where the Sasquatch’m is no longer the alpha predator and king of the forest, in search of Gai, a young Sasquatch’m girl he’d sighted across a blueberry patch and who’d dropped a purple glyph mat she’d crafted a keepsake. Here he will have to summons his reputed Sasquatch’m powers of ‘The Way’ – Of which he has yet to experience much less master. The only thing about ‘The Way’ that he understands for sure is that Sasquatch’m do not harm any of his brothers who walk and stand up-right – This is sacrosanct.

Max will come face to face with certain death itself as he falls victim to circumstances and situations that will challenge and defy every belief system of his human mentors; which contrasts his simplistic parents acceptance of what ‘is’.

Again and again Max will retreat to the feet of the Giant Sequoias which are the living repositories of everything that’s ever transpired since the beginnings of time itself because they are the sole living witnesses.
When Max re-emerges from the subterranean realm he is a young man, scarred and hardened by the experience and disillusioned by his fruitless pursuit of the elusive Gai; is immediately thrown into the fray of saving the Grandmother of all Sequoias from illegal loggers.

Here Max will learn to summons his massive Sasquatch’m powers, not the least of which is telepathy, interfering with electrical impulses and shapeshifting to foil the highly organised poachers. Imagine if you can what a brain two to four times the size of the human brain is capable of – Especially if it’s been programmed by a philosophical scholar and professional soldier and the women in their lives.

Will the young Sasquatch’m with all of his powers both human and Sasquatch’m be able to maintain the sacred harmony?
Will Max indeed be the result of everyone and everything that’s ever touched him as his methodical mentor Medford Haley has always stated? Will boy get the girl? Best hit the ‘Buy’ button on Amazon.

Mike Davis Bio

🦶 400-Word Précis — “I AM MAX”

Mike Davis’s I AM MAX brings the Max the Bigfoot Trilogy to a breathtaking and spiritual close — a mythic, poetic, and deeply human coming-of-age tale that fuses eco-realism, Indigenous wisdom, and cosmic wonder.

Now seventeen and fully grown, Max the Sasquatch’m has returned to his people after years living among humans. Yet the wild no longer feels wholly his, nor civilization entirely alien. Torn between two worlds — the ancient forest of his birth and the electrified chaos of humanity — Max stands as bridge and witness to the fading harmony between nature and mankind.

When a mysterious young Sasquatch woman, Gai, awakens his heart and vanishes into the mist, Max embarks on a quest across the Pacific Northwest to find her. His journey takes him through sacred lands, memories of his human mentors Medford Haley (“Gud”) and Derek “Dak” Deklan, and into visions of environmental collapse and spiritual rebirth. Along the way, Max confronts what it means to be — to belong, to love, and to forgive — in a world where myth and modernity collide.

Told in Max’s reflective voice, Davis interlaces vivid wilderness imagery with philosophical insight, creating a narrative that echoes The Overstory, Moby Dick, and American Gods in scope and soul. It is at once adventure, elegy, and revelation: a story of the “last wild man” seeking meaning in an age that has forgotten how to listen.

With lyrical prose and deep compassion, Davis reminds readers that the real monsters are not those hiding in the woods, but those who have forgotten how to live with them. I AM MAX is both an ending and a beginning — a love song to the Earth and to every creature who dares to “just be.”

🌐 Metadata

Title: I AM MAX
Author: Mike Davis
Series: Max the Bigfoot Trilogy (Book 3) / Medford Haley Series (Book 7)
Publisher: Point Surfer Press
Genre: Mythic Realism · Eco-Literary Fiction · Adventure · Coming-of-Age
Setting: Pacific Northwest / Mojave Desert / First Nations Territory

Keywords:
Bigfoot novel Mike Davis, eco-spiritual fiction, Sasquatch myth book, environmental literary fiction, Pacific Northwest legends, First Nations storytelling, coming-of-age fantasy, mythic realism novel, Medford Haley series, Point Surfer Press

Description:
A lyrical Bigfoot journey of love, identity, and wild truth — Max walks between two worlds to find his heart and restore harmony to a vanishing earth.

📚 Amazon KDP / Goodreads Metadata

Short Description (~120 words)

After years among humans, Max returns to the deep forest — but no longer fits in either world. When a mysterious young Sasquatch woman named Gai vanishes into the fog, Max sets out on a perilous journey through sacred wilderness to find her and his own place in creation.

I AM MAX is the soulful conclusion to Mike Davis’s acclaimed Max the Bigfoot Trilogy, blending myth, science, and spirituality in a modern eco-parable about love, belonging, and the fragile balance between civilization and the wild.

Long Description (~250 words)

In I AM MAX, the final chapter of Mike Davis’s Max the Bigfoot Trilogy, the young Sasquatch once sheltered by humans now faces the greatest journey of all — the search for his own soul.

Raised by the mercenary Derek “Dak” Deklan and philosopher-surfer Medford “Gud” Haley, Max has absorbed the best and worst of humanity. Now back among his kind, he finds himself an outsider — too human for the Sasquatch’m, too wild for civilization. When Gai, a spirited young female of his tribe, disappears, Max sets out into the fog-shrouded Pacific Northwest to find her.

His odyssey through ancestral lands and human ruins becomes a test of wisdom and will, awakening powers he barely understands and visions of a world in ecological and spiritual peril.

Lyrical, philosophical, and profoundly moving, I AM MAX is a novel of love, loss, and renewal that asks what it means to be alive in a dying world. Fans of Neil Gaiman, Barbara Kingsolver, and Richard Powers will find much to love in Davis’s vision of hope beyond human folly.

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