For years, the DeCavalcantes, the most powerful Mob family in Jersey,
labored in the shadows of the more famous families in New York--the
likes of the Gambinos and the Columbos. Dismissed by the big-city
capos, the DeCavalcantes finally came into their own when they found
their lives mirrored in the television hit, The Sopranos. Overnight it
legitimized the made men of the Garden State. Now they were a familia
to be reckoned with. Unfortunately with high profile came high risk. As
member turned against member, as trusted friend turned terrified
informant, the FBI put the brakes on the DeCavalcante's explosive ride
into infamy, hastening a fall from honor that would become as infamous
as their notorious ascension into the annals of organized crime.
Based on more than 1,000 hours of secretly recorded conversations, Made
Men delivers, for the first time, the unprecedented and completely
uncensored behind-the-scenes truth of a historically clandestine
world--of violent life and sudden death inside and outside the mob, told
by the very men who made it.