I always wondered if I could write a novel, so I decided to try. I thought about writing a crime story, which is the kind of book I usually read, but it seemed too forbidding. But then I remembered the story I told my grandkids and started from there.
"Gene Hunt" is a Character (arts)/fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural Dramatic programming/drama Life on Mars (UK TV series)/Life on Mars and its sequel, Ashes to Ashes (TV series)/Ashes to Ashes. The character is portrayed by Philip Glenister in both Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, whereas in the Life on Mars (U.S. TV series)/American version he is portrayed by Harvey Keitel.
The character is portrayed as Political correctness/politically incorrect, brutal and corrupt. Hunt is often displayed to maintain a love–hate relationship with both Sam Tyler (John Simm) and Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes), the leading protagonists of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, respectively.
The character received critical and public acclaim for his role in Life on Mars, being dubbed a "national hero", an unlikely sex symbol and a "top cop". A third and final series of Ashes to Ashes was said to "reveal all about Gene Hunt and what his alternative world really means in a stunning finale" and that the "truth [would] out". The character is Gene Hunt#Finale/ultimately revealed to be an integral part of the strange world that both Sam Tyler and Alex Drake inhabit.
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