Reply #105: I'm reminded of a science fiction novel I once read

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and cannot for the life of me remember the title. It's about a journalist who has the talent to interview politicians and religious leaders and totally unmask them to the public. He is celebrated for this talent. Anyway, he interviews a religious/political leader who has been emerging as very popular in the US. In fact, there is a party that is raising in influence in which it's elite are almost like soldiers for this guy. The journalist interviews and then researches and discovers this leader is a total fake. As he is getting it together to put out the interview, his financial resources are disappeared and he and his family (his wife and a few people that make up his inner circle) are pursued. His goal is to get across the country to a fabled place that is unspoiled and where a group of children are protected and growing up free. He is transported and aided by an underground network of this revolutionary/secret group. I can't think of the name of it.

Anyway, through the book his identity is trashed, his character besmirched and his technology is taken away-- even his "anti aging" technology.