The Queens Assassin dramatizes the adage that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. In Trinia, a Caribbean island, anxiety rises among the dominant mulattos and the more numerous blacks as the country prepares to hold a national election. Enter a young American, Scott Peck, who does not know whyor by whomhe has been summoned to Trinia; he reluctantly participates in a tragedy involving the anglophile leader of the mulattos, the once-Marxist, now-Voodoo leader of the blacks, a cynical U.S. diplomat, a soulless American hedonista, and an extraordinary Russian beauty.