An unidentified object parked on the moon - and no one seems to know where it came from. Gustavo, a middle-aged computer programmer with a comfortable and grey life, decides to make a list of what he would need to survive a hypothetical attack. He becomes obsessed with the list, spends a fortune, robs a drugstore: his own family thinks he is going insane. However, after the attack, it’s the insane who are well prepared for a new era in society. First book of a trilogy.



Gonçalo JN Dias was born Lisbon in 1977. He holds a degree in Environmental Engineering and Natural Resources. He currently lives in the Basque Country, in Spain.
He is an independent author. Manual for a Murder is his second novel. The first was The Good Dictator I – Birth of an Empire, part of successful trilogy, which has been translated into three languages.