John Taggart
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John W. Taggart is a thriller and historical fiction author based on Tiki Island, Texas — a barrier island community on the Gulf Coast, twenty minutes from Galveston. He writes in two distinct bodies of work: the Resonance Universe, a connected science thriller series, and the Galveston Historicals, standalone novels built on deep research into one of America's most consequential and underwritten cities.
His debut novel, The Recurrence Protocol, published in 2026. It is Book I of a four-book connected thriller universe in which a physicist discovers that every atomic clock on Earth is spontaneously synchronizing — and an archaeologist working 12,000-year-old stone sites in Turkey figures out why. The Alignment Protocol, Book II, follows July 4, 2026. The Galveston Historicals are standalone novels rooted in the real history of the Texas Gulf Coast — the 1900 hurricane, the pirate colony at Campeche, the Maceo family's Prohibition-era Free State, Reconstruction-era Black political power, and the Civil War occupation of the island. The Storm's Alibi, the first in this series, is currently on submission to literary agents. He is also developing Justice in Death, a six-book forensic procedural set in Houston, and Eva's Heir, a five-book historical thriller tracing a Buenos Aires family's Nazi-era secrets. He writes one chapter per day across multiple active projects and is building a long-term career across multiple series. |
The Recurrence Protocol
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Fiction
Daniel Avery is a physicist monitoring the orbital path of asteroid Apophis when he notices something that shouldn't be possible: every atomic clock on Earth is synchronizing. Not drifting toward agreement — snapping into perfect coherence, simultaneously, across every GPS satellite, every financial server, every timing system on the planet. The infrastructure built on the assumption that clocks would always be slightly wrong begins to fail. GPS positions shift. Power grids misalign. Financial exchanges flag impossible timestamps. No one knows why. No one has seen this before. Twelve thousand years ago, someone did. Miriam Okafor is an archaeologist working the stone sites at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey when she finds scoring marks on a pillar that don't match any known symbolic system — until she recognizes them as a measurement record. A cycle. A warning encoded in the only medium that could survive that long: stone, geometry, and the sky. What the builders of Göbekli Tepe witnessed, recorded, and buried — hoping someone would eventually understand — is happening again. Daniel has days to prevent a global infrastructure collapse. Miriam has the only map. The science is real. The threat is not. 
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