From the author of Without Precedent andIndivisible, the gripping true storyof how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution.Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical figures. Silas Deane was a Connecticut merchant and delegate to the Continental Congress as the American colonies struggled to break with England. Caron de Beaumarchais was a successful playwright who wrote The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. And the flamboyant and mysterious Chevalier d'