Liberty and Glory by James R. Gaines
Los Angeles Times (http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-bk-rappleye23sep23,0,6704118.story?coll=cl-books-util)
By Charles Rappleye
9/23/2007
'Excerpt: Gaines invokes Beaumarchais at the outset, when he was dispatched to London on an errand for the king: to rein in an errant spy, the chevalier D'Eon'