This week I turned our dialogue to a much more sensitive topic – a personal

one. Just at the time of this interview, Douglas Kennedy got word that

there was one less author in the world. The news was sudden, though, not

unexpected. This author, the acclaimed novelist and intellectual Philip

Kerr, passed away in March of 2018. An esteemed author of 41 novels, Kerr

was an astute observer of the human condition and a lock-tight fictional

historian – capturing time and place as no other author of his time could.