I think that level of rehashing the older materiel is a way to get new readers on board a series where a lot of potential readers may not understand the reading order. I have found that books in the mack bolan books tend to do this a fare amount of time. This is simply because its such a big group of books that it takes a potential reader several years to get up to the current point when you start at the begining, thus a lot of readers tend to start with the latest book without going back to the begining, War against the mafia.
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