Rhodesian novelist Daniel Carney died tragically at the age of 42. Best known for the 1978 film The Wild Geese, the fourteenth-highest-grossing film worldwide, Carney was a writer, a dreamer, a loner, and a brave man, passionate about Rhodesia, the country he loved. At eighteen, he joined the British South Africa Police as a mounted policeman and later fought in the Bush War as a reservist. He fought for what he believed in: freedom and justice. He wrote five best-selling novels, three of which were made into films. He was Erin Pizzey's brother, the domestic abuse advocate known for starting the first and largest domestic violence shelter in the modern world.