As Graham Greene put it in the preface to his classic novel The Comedians, “Poor Haiti itself and the character of Doctor Duvalier’s rule are not invented, the latter not even blackened for dramatic effect. Impossible to blacken that night.”

One wonders what Greene would have made of the latest twist in Haiti’s convoluted drama. What was there to add to four hurricanes, a massive earthquake, a cholera epidemic and a questioned presidential election?

I suppose not even that most imaginative of novelists would have predicted the return of the dictator’s offspring, “Baby Doc,” himself in charge for 15 years, after a quarter of a century of exile in France. Nearly 60 now, but still with that boyish air and distracted look, appearing not to know exactly what is going on around him — which may be part of the reason he lost power in Haiti first, his beautiful wife, Michele Bennett, later, and finally his ill-gotten fortune.