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The badge of a police officer is intended to be a shield-a heavy, silver promise that the person wearing it stands between the innocent and the predatory. In the small, dust-blown town of Glendale, Zimbabwe, that badge belonged to Inspector Takudzwa Masamba. To the community, he was the Law. To his wife, Agnes, he was the bedrock of a fifteen-year marriage. But behind the starched khaki uniform and the iron-fisted command of the Glendale Police Station lay a man who had begun to believe that his authority made him untouchable by the very laws he was sworn to uphold. The Inspector's Badge of Shame is not merely a story of a clandestine affair between a high-ranking officer and his subordinate. It is a forensic examination of the erosion of integrity. It explores the dangerous intersection of power, desire, and the arrogance of office. When Takudzwa Masamba chose to use his position to reward his mistress, Constable Loice Mutakura, with lucrative highway duties and special favors, he didn't just betray his wife-he corrupted the uniform. This novel takes the reader from the disciplined morning parades of a rural police station to the secluded, bougainvillea-shaded balconies of the Mazowe Hotel, where secrets eventually collide with reality. It is a story told through the eyes of those left in the wake of betrayal: Agnes, the observant Geography teacher who realizes that the maps of her life are being redrawn by a stranger; and Tonderai, the quiet Sergeant who proves that even the most powerful Inspector cannot outrun a paper trail. In these pages, you will find a landscape of high-stakes consequences-from the scandalous headlines of the H-Metro to the staggering weight of a US$200,000 adultery lawsuit. It is a narrative that asks a fundamental question: What is the true cost of a reputation? As the red dust of Glendale settles, the reader is left with a stark reminder that power is never owned; it is only leased. And when the terms of that lease are violated by greed and lust, the eviction is not just professional-it is absolute.

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