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| Honor Few, Fear None: The Life and Times of a Mongol | 
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Category: Book
Author: Ruben Cavazos
Publisher: William Morrow
Studio: William Morrow
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Label: William Morrow
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0061137898
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.10660973
EAN: 9780061137891
ASIN: 0061137898
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
The stunning, never-before-told story of Ruben "Doc" Cavazos, international president of the Mongols Motorcycle Club When Ruben "Doc" Cavazos changes his clothes at daybreak, he is no longer a CAT scan technician at the University of Southern California Medical Center. He becomes the man known?and, in a few special cases, feared?as Doc, international president of the Mongols, the fastest-growing and most closely watched organization of its kind in the United States. In reality, the Mongols are a tightly knit band of brothers devoted in equal measure to the club, their fellow Mongols, and their freedom. They live to enjoy life, party, and travel the open road. Above all, they demand respect. When pushed too far, Mongols join together to push back. Just ask the Hells Angels, the Ukrainian mafia, the Mexican mafia, and the U.S. government. All have tested the Mongols' resolve. In Honor Few, Fear None, Doc is ready, for the first time, to share the stories of the Mongols' battle to survive and thrive against incredible odds and sometimes terrible violence. Doc takes you to the streets and into the bars, the secret meetings, the brawls, and the shoot-outs, all proof that if you live like a Mongol does, you must honor few, fear none.
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 Mongols MC go Madison Avenue September 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I guess it was only a matter of time before the Mongols MC, similar to Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels MC, embarked upon a public relations campaign of their own. In "Respect Few, Fear None" Mongols MC president Ruben "Doc" Cavazos presents his side of the story concerning the rivalry and clashes with the Hells Angels MC, the ATF undercover operation, and the history of the club.
Doc's version of events concerning agent Bill Queen is corroborated by details in Queens book "Under and Alone" and by Queen's testimony in court and in interviews which lends credibility to "Respect Few, Fear None". During the trial Doc asked Billy outside the courtroom if he missed riding with the Mongols and Billy replied "Yeah, I do". In "Under and Alone" Billy Queen admitted to feeling a real brotherhood within the Mongols MC and even felt more of a kinship with the Mongols than with other federal agents! The San Fernando Valley chapter were idiots (Doc's words) but Bill Queen took a genuine liking to many Mongol members in the L.A. and other surrounding chapters.
This isn't to say the Mongols are really great guys who, when not riding their Harley's, are getting cats out of trees or giving free violin lessons. But, the government failed to produce compelling evidence of many of the crimes they accused the Mongols MC of committing. While the Mongols MC aren't exactly knights in shining armor, they're probably not as evil and criminally inclined as the media, police and feds lead the general public to believe.
Doc appears to have been instrumental in vastly increasing the membership and cleaning up the club's image by instituting a code of conduct of sorts. The only problem is that most of the new members are ex-Mexican gang bangers from the mean streets of East and South L.A. While the Mongols MC was historically a mixed white and Mexican club it seems with Doc's new recruiting strategy it's being turned into an exclusively Mexican club with a few white hangers on. White one percenters looking to join a club should keep that in mind.
Overall this is a very interesting book and fast read. I could say more but don't want to spoil it for everyone. I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in "outlaw" motorcycle clubs.
 Disrespect September 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Read this book a second time and have to say it is disrespectful of the club and specific members in it - a gross "no-no" in the 1%er world on both counts.
If, as one other review offers, Cavazos is out of the club in lieu of his book that's a wise move on the Mongols' part.
The Real Truth September 2, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Honor Few, Fear None is neither well written nor interesting. It really isn't comparable to William Queen's Book, Under and Alone, which was better written, even if you don't appreciate ATF infiltrating a motorcycle club.
This book should be an embarrassment to the Mongols MC and any other 1% club. It may cater to those who don't know anything about motorcycle clubs, but for those who do, it is one man's self-serving example of his ego and does not come close to the truth. For example, most people in Doc's position would not put down other brothers in the club just to build their own ego. No 1% club would allow another member to speak poorly of its own members.
Doc's version of the events at Laughlin gloss over the fact that he fled and left brothers on the floor of the casino to die after doing nothing to avoid the conflict that was building. The extensive sections about everything he stole as a kid are another example of his distorted sense of bravado. Then, he talks about doing "hard time" at Wayside, a Los Angeles County jail, for inmates sentenced to short term, local sentences.
Don't hold your breath waiting for Doc to write another book about the inner workings of the Mongols MC since he is now out of the club with the dishonor that he deserves.
Save your money and don't bother with this book.
 A Fun Book about Squeaky Clean Outlaws August 29, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
A standard 1%er pose is the wide-eyed "We're not all saints, but we're just a club of guys who like to party and ride." (As long as they're sure you won't believe this.) Ex-gangbanger and current outlaw president Calvos takes this line in his rejoinder to Billy Queen's Under and Alone, with just a few details left in to make sure you do realize that the Mongols are heavily armed and kill people who piss them off.
Don't expect a realistic picture of the outlaw life in this book. Calvos wants to respond to the criticism in Queen's book (Queen was an ATF agent who infiltred the Mongols) for growing the club by flooding it with his street gang friends and connections, rather than recruiting bikers. He's unapologetic--look at the results! Facing down the Angels! Chapters everywhere!
Sherman Alexie said that Indians spend their time arguing who's entitled to call themselves an Indian, and bikers to the same. This entertaining book is in the grand tradition, responding to Queen's Mongol's chapter's accusion of "We're real bikers and you're not." After all, Queen's chapter let in Queen, make him treasurer unasked, and gave him access to all the books. How lame is that?
 A different point of view... August 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had read the book, "Under and Alone" years ago. This book is a GREAT look at the other side of the story. Anyone with a brain understands that the WHOLE story of the Mongols MC isn't told here, but it's still an interesting peak into the club and an interesting story told from a unique viewpoint. I'd definately recommend this book to bikers and anyone within the biker subculture.
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