--- title: Up A Tree - a novel by Michael Schulkins --- [Skip to content](https://michaelschulkins.com/up-a-tree#main-content) ![](https://michaelschulkins.com/hs-fs/hubfs/michael-schulkins-circle-1.png?width=200&height=200&name=michael-schulkins-circle-1.png)Homepage - [Home](https://michaelschulkins.com?hsLang=en) - [About](https://michaelschulkins.com/about?hsLang=en) - [Mark Twain on the Moon](https://michaelschulkins.com/mark-twain-on-the-moon?hsLang=en) - [Jobs & Plunkitt](https://michaelschulkins.com/jobs-and-plunkitt?hsLang=en) - [Other Books](https://michaelschulkins.com/other-books?hsLang=en) - [Home](https://michaelschulkins.com?hsLang=en) - [About](https://michaelschulkins.com/about?hsLang=en) - [Mark Twain on the Moon](https://michaelschulkins.com/mark-twain-on-the-moon?hsLang=en) - [Jobs & Plunkitt](https://michaelschulkins.com/jobs-and-plunkitt?hsLang=en) - [Other Books](https://michaelschulkins.com/other-books?hsLang=en) ### ![up-a-tree](https://michaelschulkins.com/hs-fs/hubfs/up-a-tree.jpg?width=233&height=350&name=up-a-tree.jpg)Up A Tree: A Jobs & Plunkitt Galactic Adventure A planet on strike, an alien love triangle, and a giant politician-eating artichoke: Galactic Senator Plunkitt is, literally and figuratively, up a tree. The trouble began when Plunkitt's old school chum Flotsam Drang--a startlingly malodorous Denebian with an insatiable appetite for the pleasures of the flesh--set his eye-stalks upon the worst possible paramour: the secret tweet-heart of the planet Tree's most powerful bird. This unlikely rivalry soon draws Plunkitt into a thicket of insider trading schemes, labor negotiations, and political skulduggery as dense and impenetrable as the rapacious jungles of Tree itself. But it's the Senator's own knack for turning a bad situation worse that lands him, Flotsam, and Tree's favorite tweet-heart in deadly peril. Naturally, it falls to your humble narrator Jobs, armed only with a million-credit brain and a ten-credit weed-whacker, to untangle the threads, rescue the Senator, and deliver the planet Tree from itself. [AMAZON](https://amzn.to/2MmGT4F) [AUDIBLE](https://www.audible.com/pd/Up-a-Tree-Audiobook/B07N4984SM) [BOOKBUB](https://www.bookbub.com/books/up-a-tree-a-jobs-and-plunkitt-galactic-adventure-by-michael-schulkins) [GOODREADS](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25390313-up-a-tree) --- © Michael Schulkins