masked prey (a prey novel book 30)  <b>lucas davenport investigates a vitriolic blog that seems to be targeting the children of u.s. politicians in the latest thriller by #1 <i>new york times-</i>bestselling author john sandford.</b><br /><br />the daughter of a u.s. senator is monitoring her social media presence when she finds a picture of herself on a strange blog. and there are other pictures . . . of the children of other influential washington politicians, walking or standing outside their schools, each identified by name. surrounding the photos are texts of vicious political rants from a motley variety of radical groups. <br /><br />it&apos;s obviously alarming--is there an unstable extremist tracking the loved ones of powerful politicians with deadly intent? but when the fbi is called in, there isn&apos;t much the feds can do. the anonymous photographer can&apos;t be pinned down to one location or ip address, and more importantly, at least to the paper-processing bureaucrats, no crime has actually been committed. with nowhere else to turn, influential senators decide to call in someone who can operate outside the fbi&apos;s constraints: lucas davenport.