The Ghost of Beirut: A Brent Cassidy Novel

By JR Cross

The Ghost of Beirut watches from a nearby apartment complex as the building housing the US Marines blows up on that early Sunday morning in October 1983, in Beirut, Lebanon. Finally, something that will make the Americans think about putting troops in my country and supplying Israel with the weapons used to kill my family. Moment later, the building housing French paratroopers was also destroyed. Nearly 300 dead. That's a good start, he thought.

Decades later, Josef Kayed still had not been identified nor caught by anyone. Not the Americans, French, Israelis. Nobody knew who he was. Kayed had his own freedom fighter group now, based in Iran and he was ready to hit the US hard again, just after the World Trade Center attack in September 2001.

Brent Cassidy, a recent graduate of West Point Military Academy was preparing for assignment to the middle east on September 11. His training was accelerated, and he is assigned to lead a group in Afghanistan, searching for Osama bin Laden and other top Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives.

Cassidy is a US Army Ranger, assigned to the intelligence group in the 75th Ranger Regiment. Follow him as he discovers who Josef Kayed is nearly 20 years after the Beirut attack. How many more people will die at the hands of Kayed and his men before Cassidy can capture the elusive Ghost of Beirut.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FP59MQLQ
• ISBN13: 9798298573634
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"