<p>In April 2014 Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and freed two months later after serving twenty-nine years in prison.</p><p>This is the story of how Carter and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky worked for ten years to help free the wrongfully convicted McCallum along with a group of committed friends and professionals. It details their struggles from founding an innocence project to take on the case to finding lawyers willing to work pro bono to hiring a private detective to sift through old evidence and locate original witnesses and the most difficult part convincing members of a deeply flawed criminal justice system to reopen a case that would expose their own mistakes when all they wanted to do was ignore the conflicting evidence. Finally it took a new district attorney a documentary film and an op-ed piece written by Carter on his death bed published in the New York<i> Daily News</i> that made a plea for McCallum’s release and turned the tide of justice. <i>Freeing David McCallum</i> tells a tale of frustration agony and undying hope and the miracle that resulted in David’s release.</p>