The Queen's Assassin

The Queen s 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 why or by whom he 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