No Fixed Address: The hunt for Brenden James Abbott

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there is no single criminal that concerns police , and should concern the community , as much as Brenden Abbott. Detective Sergeant trevor Jenkins, SA Police. It began as a single file at the Perth Armed Robbery Squad and grew to involve every operational police officer in Australia. For five-and-a-half years, Brenden James Abbott was a grinning shadow in an Akubra who couldn't be caught. When on the run, Abbott traversed the nation with a regularity and breadth previously unheard of in the world of crime. And it was travel , as well as his much vaunted intelligence : that was the key to his success as a fugitive. there were suburban residences and an assortment of storage sheds and hideaways scattered across the country, but these served only as a base for operations - there was no fixed address. With each bank robbery and escape, Abbott became progressively more sophisticated in his approach, transforming the hit-and-miss occupation of violent crime into a precise art that netted millions of dollars. the media, detecting a whiff of anti-hero from the start, followed Abbott's career with glee, coining a new titles for every occasion: the Drop-In Bandit, the Postcard Bandit, the Speedway Captain and, in the end, simply Australia's Most Wanted.
\'9291there is no single criminal that concerns police nd should concern the community s much as Brenden Abbott.\'9291 Detective Sergeant trevor Jenkins, SA Police. It began as a single file at the Perth Armed Robbery Squad and grew to involve every operational police officer in Australia. For five-and-a-half years, Brenden James Abbott was a grinning shadow in an Akubra who couldn't be caught. When on the run, Abbott traversed the nation with a regularity and breadth previously unheard of in the world of crime. And it was travel s well as his much vaunted intelligence hat was the key to his success as a fugitive. there were suburban residences and an assortment of storage sheds and hideaways scattered across the country, but these served only as a base for operations - there was no fixed address. With each bank robbery and escape, Abbott became progressively more sophisticated in his approach, transforming the hit-and-miss occupation of violent crime into a precise art that netted millions of dollars. the media, detecting a whiff of anti-hero from the start, followed Abbott's career with glee, coining a new titles for every occasion: the Drop-In Bandit, the Postcard Bandit, the Speedway Captain and, in the end, simply Australia's Most Wanted.

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Derek Pedley joined The West Australian in Perth as a cadet journalist in 1990 and is now a news sub editor at The Advertiser in Adelaide. He has reported on Brenden Abbott's crimes since 1994 and travelled to eight cities in the course of researching this book.