Dan Eaton has travelled extensively, covering social issues, politics, terrorism, conflict, and disasters as a journalist and in foreign intelligence. He was raised in the Middle East by his missionary parents, and his decade of work following university was as a foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia for major news agencies Agence France-Presse and Reuters. Today he lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He has written two novels, the award winning The Secret Gospel and more recently No White Lies, a finalist in the 14th National Indie Excellence Awards (2020).
Eaton’s first novel The Secret Gospel was shortlisted in the Rethink Press New Novels competition in 2014 and a quarterfinalist in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
Dan Eaton has travelled extensively, covering social issues, politics, terrorism, conflict, and disasters as a journalist and in foreign intelligence. He was raised in the Middle East by his missionary parents, and his decade of work following university was as a foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia for major news agencies Agence France-Presse and Reuters. Today he lives in Wellington, New Zealand. He has written two novels, the award winning The Secret Gospel and more recently No White Lies, a finalist in the 14th National Indie Excellence Awards (2020).
Eaton’s first novel The Secret Gospel was shortlisted in the Rethink Press New Novels competition in 2014 and a quarterfinalist in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
GET IN TOUCH
GET IN TOUCH
What would you do for success? Would you lie? Would you cheat? Would you kill?
NO WHITE LIES
Award-winning journalist Will McCormick has it all. Money, a beautiful family, and a house in the picture-perfect resort of Queenstown in New Zealand.
Will also has a dark secret. The story that made him famous years ago didn’t quite happen the way he told it, and now someone from his past seems determined to make him pay.
What would you do for success? Would you lie? Would you cheat? Would you kill?
NO WHITE LIES
Award-winning journalist Will McCormick has it all. Money, a beautiful family, and a house in the picture-perfect resort of Queenstown in New Zealand.
Will also has a dark secret. The story that made him famous years ago didn’t quite happen the way he told it, and now someone from his past seems determined to make him pay.
An absorbing kidnapping tale inspired by true life and steeped in bleakness.“
“Newsrooms are full of writers who think they could do better, aim higher, become real authors with books to their name. Former Christchurch journalist Dan Eaton is one of the few who pulled it off.”
“Journalist, thriller writer, intelligence bigwig.”
– An interview with the author – Radio New Zealand, NZ
“Think Kathy Reichs and her Tempe Brennan, Jonathan Kellerman and his Alex Delaware, or Dervla McTiernan’s Cormac Reilly… A story to keep your interest until the finale.”
– The Otago Daily Times, NZ
For review requests:
Melissa Gilmour: melissa@lilyandpiper.com
Reviews and Press
“An absorbing kidnapping tale inspired by true life and steeped in bleakness.”
“Newsrooms are full of writers who think they could do better, aim higher, become real authors with books to their name.
Former Christchurch journalist Dan Eaton is one of the few who pulled it off.”
“Journalist, thriller writer, intelligence bigwig.”
– An interview with the author – Radio New Zealand, NZ
“Think Kathy Reichs and her Tempe Brennan, Jonathan Kellerman and his Alex Delaware, or Dervla McTiernan’s Cormac Reilly… A story to keep your interest until the finale.”
– Otago Daily Times, NZ
For review copy request contact Melissa Gilmour: melissa@lilyandpiper.com
READER PRAISE FOR
NO WHITE LIES
“A visceral psychological thriller that is as utterly terrifying as it is personal and heartbreaking. It pushed all the right buttons”
“It’s terribly real. The articulation of the weird tension between being a journalist wanting something dramatic to occur and a human concerned about the consequences of events beyond one’s control is brilliant.”
“Flings you through Baghdad war zones to underground Paris, from a far flung remote New Zealand lakeside resort to a Manhattan landfill … so easy to visually grasp as you read, you sometimes will be sickened to your core.”
“No White Lies kidnapped me for 24 hours. The tension is so quietly built, the language so elegantly economic, and the New Zealand landscape so beautifully drawn, that I experienced a kind of Stockholm syndrome when it was finally time to return to the real world.”
“Another thought provoking reminder in this day and age of the line between the media reporting the story and creating it.”
READER PRAISE FOR
NO WHITE LIES
“A visceral psychological thriller that is as utterly terrifying as it is personal and heartbreaking. It pushed all the right buttons”
“It’s terribly real. The articulation of the weird tension between being a journalist wanting something dramatic to occur and a human concerned about the consequences of events beyond one’s control is brilliant.”
“Flings you through Baghdad war zones to underground Paris, from a far flung remote New Zealand lakeside resort to a Manhattan landfill … so easy to visually grasp as you read, you sometimes will be sickened to your core.”
“No White Lies kidnapped me for 24 hours. The tension is so quietly built, the language so elegantly economic, and the New Zealand landscape so beautifully drawn, that I experienced a kind of Stockholm syndrome when it was finally time to return to the real world.”
“Another thought provoking reminder in this day and age of the line between the media reporting the story and creating it.”
OTHER BOOKS BY
DAN EATON
OTHER BOOKS BY DAN EATON
“A dangerous and thrilling adventure … This multi-faceted work of history, conspiracy and religion will gain favour among fans of Dan Brown and Steve Berry.”
—Publishers Weekly
THE SECRET GOSPEL
In 1958, a young Bible scholar stumbles upon a version of the Gospel of Mark far older than that recorded in the New Testament. Unfortunately, his discovery brings him nothing but vilification and accusations of forgery. Eventually, the Secret Gospel simply disappears.
“A dangerous and thrilling adventure … This multi-faceted work of history, conspiracy and religion will gain favour among fans of Dan Brown and Steve Berry.”
—Publishers Weekly
THE SECRET GOSPEL
In 1958, a young Bible scholar stumbles upon a version of the Gospel of Mark far older than that recorded in the New Testament. Unfortunately, his discovery brings him nothing but vilification and accusations of forgery. Eventually, the Secret Gospel simply disappears.