New Hampshire's Tripoli College is a humble New England institution which maintains a branch campus on the Caribbean island of St. Renard. Originally founded as a free school for Native Americans, it is now beset by financial problems and so has entered into an increasingly troubling financial relationship with a snack food giant called Big Anna Brands, the same corporation that controls most of the land on the island. Big Anna deposes the college president, uses students and faculty as test subjects for their dietary food additive, and hijacks the St. Renard campus for a field studies program. Whe the main characters, one a dean and the other a student at the New Hampshire campus, elect to visit St. Renard, they see a side of Big Anna that is even uglier than they imagined. -- From book jacket.