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Daniel Carney

Daniel Carney (8 August 1944 – 6 January 1987) was a Rhodesian novelist. Three of his novels have been made into films. Carney was a brother of Erin Pizzey, a British writer and feminist activist.

Biography

Daniel Carney was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1944, a son of a British diplomat. In 1963, he settled in Southern Rhodesia (soon to be renamed Rhodesia) and joined the British South Africa Police (BSAP), where he served for three and a half years. In 1968, he co-founded the estate agents Fox and Carney in Salisbury, Rhodesia. He died of cancer in 1987.

In 2005, Tango Entertainment released a 30th-anniversary edition of The Wild Geese (1978). The film had been hampered by the collapse of its American distributor, Allied Artists. As a result, the film was only partially distributed in the United States, where it was a box-office disappointment, despite being the 13th-highest-grossing film, worldwide, of 1978.

Published works

  • Set in Rhodesia, the book was adapted as a 1976 movie titled Whispering Death, a.k.a. Night of the Askaris, Death in the Sun, and Albino.
  • (Originally titled The Thin White Line.) Set in the Congo, it was adapted as the film The Wild Geese (1978), with a screenplay by Reginald Rose (author of 12 Angry Men).
  • Set in Rhodesia, its film rights were optioned by Euan Lloyd, producer of The Wild Geese and Wild Geese II, but the project was not filmed.
  • Set in Germany and republished as The Wild Geese II and The Return of the Wild Geese, the novel was adapted as a movie titled Wild Geese II (1985).
  • is set in Macau.

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