History Professor Emeritus Bill Issel's New Novel 'Traitors' Based on True Crime from 1940s

BERKELEYSIDE -- I first stumbled upon Bill Issel’s work when I read the iconic book he co-authored with Robert Cheney: “San Francisco, 1865 – 1932: Politics, Power and Urban Development.” It still holds a place of importance on my bookshelf. Issel, who lives in Berkeley and is an emeritus professor at San Francisco State University, is still exploring heady issues (he is writing about the competition between the Catholic Church and the Communist Party from the Russian Revolution to the end of the Cold War) but has also ventured into fiction. He has just published “Traitors,” a novel set in San Francisco in 1942, the second book of a trilogy.