If Tom Clancy had come up with a plot in which a Russian president was accused of killing 10 people to take out a friend turned adversary, while not being able to attend an international conference for fear of being arrested for war crimes, his publishers would have rejected it as incredible.
An alternative, in which a former US president who had survived two impeachments and was running again turned himself at the Fulton County Jail to be finger printed and have his mug shot taken, would also be unlikely to make the cut.
