Evil on the Prowl
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After a few minutes of struggling to free himself the drunken man on the center of the melee was eventually subdued by the two ladies who succeeded to hold him against the wall. Suddenly, in what looked like some rather well drilled and mastered movements, the two ladies tripped their victim to the ground and the next moment they were holding him by his both legs pinning him against the wall up-side-down with his head to the ground and his legs in the air - up the wall. The drunken man was completely dazed by now and he did not struggle anymore. Momentarily the ladies were violently shaking the poor fellow while he was still up-side-down. A few objects fell off him as the violent shaking emptied his pockets. The ladies collected whatever few valuables that had fallen from his pockets leaving the rest strewn on the ground as a way of fixing him. When they were done, they abruptly let him loose and walked away leaving him to fall to the ground with a heavy thud. But they did not get anywhere far before the long tentacles of the law caught up with them. The poor fellow eventually picked himself up collected a few of his belongings the two ladies had not bothered to take with them and staggered away with a bruised ego. His plans for an all-night bed vigil with a lady of the night had gone down the drain. “We did not mean to rob him. We only wanted to fix him. We meant to punish him for snubbing my services. He had voluntarily solicited for my services for the night earlier in the evening. He convinced me that he was going to take me home for an all-night necked romp,” later claimed to the police one of the two ladies caught on the wrong side of the law. “We were at the nightclub minding our own business when he came along and befriended us. He later solicited for my friend’s services pledging to host her for the night at his home enjoying the ‘sweetness of nature’. But as the nightclub was closing at around 03:00 in the morning he had a change of mind. He ditched my friend and approached another lady with whom he quickly sealed a deal and agreed to go together for the beloved moment at her place,” explained the friend of the ditched lady of the night. “He thought I was not watching him when he hurriedly left the club and planned to take a taxi which was parked outside, in the company of the other woman. Of course that was unacceptable and it did not go down well with me and my friend. I had ignored other clients until closing time and lost business because of him,” claimed the snubbed woman. “We quickly followed him together with his new mistress to the taxi and pulled him from the taxi and wrestled with. We only wanted to punish him. We searched him, took his cash so that he would not pay the other woman and we went away. After all he was supposed to pay for my services with that cash,” added the snubbed woman. About the same hour the police was booking the two friends, a fire was being set and left raging to destroy a block of apartments and livelihoods of the people who lived there in yet another criminal offense that would leave the affected residents and the police alike without any clue as to who started the fire. Within minutes of the fire starting, the police, ambulances and the fire brigade were called to the scene.
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In Evil on the Prowl, a divorced former schoolteacher becomes a well-respected church leader. The causes of her divorce as Tito and Tongai were informed one afternoon is because, according to Nhau her ex-husband, she is an unscrupulous character, a woman of questionable ethics. All she thinks of is making money by whatever means possible, however dubious. Meanwhile, for weeks on end, the city of Marondera is gripped by a crime wave as groups of criminals operate with impunity - robbing, abducting, raping, and printing and circulating counterfeit money. Ordinary people disappear without trace. Men taken from the streets are drugged with numbing regularity then transformed into sex machines and subjected to violent sex escapades without them knowing it is happening. A team of police detectives follow a number of leads in the days and weeks to come, but none of them yield what each has promised at the beginning. The police is increasingly frustrated by its apparent failure to get rid of the criminals as crime in the city is on the increase. Then, Wanzai and her son are murdered in cold blood, and a suspected thief, is caught at the funeral wake of the deceased in the middle of the night. Intelligence received from the suspect reveals that a religious shrine in a village in Domboshava is a centre for dubious activities other than being solely a place for warship. At the centre of it all is one woman, “Her Anointed One.”
About the Author
Emmanuel Chinyamakobvu, the author of Evil on the prowl, was born in the then Southern Rhodesia, and the present day Republic of Zimbabwe. He went to a number of primary schools in rural Rhodesia before enrolling for secondary education which he eventually completed in independent Zimbabwe. He later obtained college degrees in Agronomic Engineering, Agronomy, and Environment Management. In between college he lectured at the Harare Polytechnic, before joining the Department of Natural Resources. During his tenure in the Department of Natural Resources he participated in the negotiation process of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) on behalf of the government of Zimbabwe. He later joined the UNCCD Secretariat. While with the United Nations, he practiced sustainable environmental management and rural development with a close linkage to poverty alleviation. Given his exposure to the work of the UNCCD, he worked with diverse stakeholder groupings, facilitating conferences of multilateral negotiations between country Parties, institutions and organizations. In the later years, his work with the UNCCD, also involved policy advocacy and partnership building between countries and development partners (donors). During his young and more adventurous years, Emmanuel participated in the Second Chimurenga that brought about the independence of Zimbabwe. It was his experiences in that war that inspired his book, The Audacity of Breaking Free. He is also the author of: The Intricate Mediators of the Land Reform in Zimbabwe, Thou shall not be caught, The Farm on Their Land and The Trail of a Promiscuous Spouse.