Harvard, Jane. The Student Body. May 1998. 352p. Villard, $23(0-679-44858-6).
Harvard University is the scene of a prostitution ring, corporate espionage, kinky sexual relationships, and all manner of skulduggery in this thriller written pseudonymously by four graduates of that lofty institution. Toni Isaac, an ambitious African American reporter with the Harvard Crimson, gets a tip about a prostitution ring involving Harvard students. But her simple idea of a story about students selling themselves to make tuition payments soon escalates to the highest levels of the university and a corporation. A multiracial cast of bright characters, alternately celebrating and castigating their status as Ivy League students or faculty, assist or hinder Toni's search for leads. In the course of her investigation, Toni stumbles into a new romance, copes with the death of a close friend, nearly falls in disgrace, and struggles with her own motives as she wheedles information and breaks laws to get her story. The novel is the result of a six-year collaboration by four Harvard graduates. Despite its many authors, it is a seamless, fast-paced work, filled with the topography and culture of Harvard. Readers who enjoyed Pamela Thomas-Graham's Darker Shade of Crimson [BKL F 15 98], also set at Harvard, will enjoy this thriller as well. --Vanessa Bush
(Booklist/March 15, 1998)
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