Archaeological Thriller · Historical Fiction · Conspiracy · Dark Fiction

John W.
Taggart

Four genres · One author · Worlds that don't wait

Ancient evidence. Buried history. The storms, secrets, and bloodlines that someone will kill to keep hidden.

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The Connected Universe

The Resonance Universe

Three protagonists who never meet — except in the reader, who holds all three simultaneously. Each series is independently complete as a thriller. Together they describe something that took twelve thousand years to finish.

Protocol Directive Sequence

The Protocol Series

4 Books · 2026–2029 Daniel Mercer · Orbital Systems Engineer
Book I
The Recurrence Protocol
March 4, 2026
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Book II
The Alignment Protocol
July 4, 2026
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Book III
The Origin Protocol
July 4, 2027
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Book IV
The Terminal Protocol
November 4, 2029
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The Directive Series

4 Books · 2027–2028 Aimee Mercer · Investigative Journalist
Book I
The Wardenclyffe Directive
November 4, 2027
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Book II
The HAARP Directive
March 4, 2028
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Book III
The Philadelphia Directive
July 4, 2028
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Book IV
The NDA Directive
November 4, 2028
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The Sequence Series

4 Books · 2026–2029 Wren Fontaine · Orbital Physicist
Book I
The Draco Sequence
November 4, 2026
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Book II
The Schumann Sequence
March 4, 2027
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Book III
The Laschamps Sequence
March 4, 2029
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Book IV
The Node Sequence
July 4, 2029
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Historical Fiction

Stories Buried in Time

Standalone Novel · 2026

The Storm's Alibi

Galveston, September 8, 1900. The deadliest natural disaster in American history. The perfect alibi.

A story of what catastrophe conceals — and what it cannot.

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More historical novels in development.

Dark Fiction

Justice in Death

A vampire series set in the bayous and back roads of the Gulf South. A darker world — coming soon.

Justice in Death

Series · In Development
Book I
What the Bayou Keeps
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Conspiracy Thrillers

Hidden Bloodlines. Buried Truths.

Secret organizations. Stolen legacies. The history they don't want you to find.

Eva's Heir

5 Books · In Development
Book I
Eva's Heir
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Book II
The Black Sun
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Book III
The Stolen Crown
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Book IV
The Collapse Protocol
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Book V
The Last Blood
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The Tradecraft Historian

Series · In Development
Book I
The Martyr's Ledger
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More Worlds in Progress

15+ standalone novels in development across historical fiction, thriller, conspiracy, and literary fiction. Subscribe below for announcements.

Readers on The Recurrence Protocol

What They're Saying

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A debut that reads like a career's worth of craft — the kind of thriller that makes you distrust every history textbook you've ever read.

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Taggart does what the best writers in this genre do: he makes the science feel inevitable and the history feel dangerous. I finished it in two sittings.

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The Recurrence Protocol sits in the tradition of Brown and Rollins but with a colder, more grounded intelligence. The architecture is unlike anything I've read in the genre.

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The Author

John W. Taggart

Writing at the intersection of archaeology, history, conspiracy, and suspense, John builds thrillers that treat the historical record not as background but as evidence — layered, contested, and occasionally dangerous.

His debut novel, The Recurrence Protocol, is the first book in a twelve-novel connected universe spanning three series. Three protagonists. Three science registers. One architecture that only becomes fully visible to the reader who completes all three.

Beyond the Resonance Universe, John writes historical fiction, conspiracy thrillers, and dark fiction — stories set in Galveston hurricanes, Buenos Aires bloodlines, and Gulf South bayous.

He lives on Tiki Island on the Texas Gulf Coast, within sight of the waters that consumed Galveston on September 8, 1900.

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