For years the DeCavalcantes the most powerful Mob family in Jersey labored in the shadows of the more famous families in New Yorkthe likes of the Gambinos and the Columbos Dismissed by the bigcity 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 DeCavalcantes explosive ride into infamy hastening a fall from honor that would become as infamous as their notorious ascension into the annals of organized crimeBased on more thanhours of secretly recorded conversations Made Men delivers for the first time the unprecedented and completely uncensored behindthescenes truth of a historically clandestine worldof violent life and sudden death inside and outside the mob