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    Up A Tree: A Jobs and Plunkitt Galactic Adventure
    Up A Tree: A Jobs and Plunkitt Galactic Adventure
    Up A Tree: A Jobs and Plunkitt Galactic Adventure
    Audiobook7 hours

    Up A Tree: A Jobs and Plunkitt Galactic Adventure

    Written by Michael Schulkins

    Narrated by Chris Walker-Thomson

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    Their 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Schulkins
    Release dateJan 15, 2019
    ISBN9781370499892
    Up A Tree: A Jobs and Plunkitt Galactic Adventure
    Author

    Michael Schulkins

    Michael Schulkins was born and raised in California, and although he has checked out repeatedly, he has of course been unable to leave. He lives with the love of his life in a classic mid-century modern house in Silicon Valley, just an iPhone’s throw from Apple Galactic Headquarters. Michael attended several universities and eventually emerged with two degrees in physics, one in music composition, and minors in math, political science, philosophy, and poker. He subsequently spent twenty years teaching physics, and now writes full time. His novels include the comic crime capers Mother Lode and Sting Suite, and the out-of-this-world political satires Beltway and Up A Tree: A Jobs and Plunkitt Galactic Adventure. All of Michael's books will give you a good laugh, but they'll also make you stop and think.

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    • 5/5
      Very enjoyable. Good main characters and a witty plot, all with a good sense of humour. I wish there was another book or three!