THIS is the story of an honest burgler. Sure Leo McGuire pulled a lot of jobs and got away with some sizable loot, but he never took anything away from the little fellow. He just very gently took some from the people who had so much or so many jewels that they were practically advertising for his services. Leo would snort if you called him a twentieth-century Robin Hood, but would modestly agree to a kinship with the legendary Johnson family.

"The world, Leo,” said his friend, Idaho Smith, "is divided into two kinds of people. Upstanding members of the Johnson family, including burglers, and so-called respectable people who would as soon swindle you as not."

If there's a moral to this exciting and diverting story you'll have to find it for yourself. Maybe it's just that the scoundrels it portrays are often as lovable as the folks that are bent on putting them behind bars.

This special edition of THE REBELLION OF LEO MCGUIRE by Clyde Brion Davis has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York.

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