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Honor Few, Fear None: The Life and Times of a Mongol | 
 enlarge | Author: Ruben Cavazos
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 6906
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
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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
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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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 Not bad November 22, 2008
This book is very easy to read. I read in two nights. Doc provides some information on the club but not much. I was hoping to find out what all the various patch meanings on the front of their cuts were, but the book doesnt say.
 A surprising read. October 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unlike Sonny Barger and Billy Queen, Ruben Cavazos' writing style is very choppy and clumsy. It was at times, hard to understand. Almost all of the events are described without dates, so I was unable to envision a timeframe of his experiences. Throughout the book, Cavazos comes off as a serious prima donna.
Important points in the history of the club, such as the war against their rivals, or the conflicts with a prison gang are glossed over and minimized.
Whereas Barger's books all portray his club almost like the Salvation Army with a couple quirks, Cavazos described his club as dysfunctional and its members as "idiots." This, I was not expecting. I think the History Channel's "Gangland" TV series which covered the Mongols gives a better understanding of the organization.
 new knowledge October 20, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Other than having read "Under and Alone "- the Billy Queen story and having come accross the reference to the biker club Mongols I really knew nothing of the club but now I have an idea of how large the group actually is and their ties to other outlaw clubs.It is a good introduction to a club the average person doesn't think of when bikers are mentioned unlike the Hells Angles,Bandidos,Outlaws or Pagans.
 Mongols MC go Madison Avenue September 22, 2008
4 out of 7 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
3 out of 4 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.
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