Fiction that unearths the buried past
Techno-archaeological thrillers and historical fiction — where ancient evidence rewrites what we thought we knew.
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Two distinct voices. One obsession with the truths history tries to bury.
A Techno-Archaeological Thriller
When archaeologist Daniel Mercer uncovers an anomalous sequence encoded beneath one of humanity's oldest known sites, he expects a career-defining find. What he gets instead is a pattern — repeating across continents, across millennia — and a growing circle of people willing to kill to ensure it stays buried. A grounded, intellectually driven thriller about the evidence history leaves behind and the institutions that decide what it means.
A Historical Novel
Galveston, Texas. September 1900. In the hours before the deadliest natural disaster in American history, a death occurs that the storm will conveniently erase. Set against the documented chaos of the Great Galveston Hurricane, this psychological historical novel explores how catastrophe becomes cover — and how the truth survives in the one place no one thinks to look. A story of memory, guilt, and what we choose to preserve.
There's a particular kind of unease that comes from realizing the past isn't settled — that the ground beneath accepted history is softer than it looks. That unease is where John Taggart's fiction begins.
Writing at the intersection of archaeology, science, 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, emerged from years of research into ancient sites, astronomical alignments, and the mechanisms by which inconvenient discoveries get buried twice: once by time, once by intent.
His second project takes a different approach to the same core question: how does truth survive catastrophe? Set during the 1900 Galveston hurricane, The Storm's Alibi moves through psychological terrain — the interior lives of people caught between a documented disaster and a private one.