Carney was a brother of Erin Pizzey, a British writer and feminist activist.
[2] Daniel Carney was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1944, a son of a British diplomat.
In 1968, he co-founded the estate agents Fox and Carney in Salisbury, Rhodesia.
[4] After his death, ownership rights in his novels and the films based on them passed to his family.
[citation needed] His family has had some interest in re-releasing The Wild Geese from American and Australian production companies, however the options were not taken up.