> She was so confident her big shot friends would protect her she didn’t even bother to hide. <
That’s the weirdest part of the whole story. There was only one country that really wanted to arrest her - the United States. And Maxwell had the means to live anywhere in the world. So where did she decide to live? In the United States.
It makes no sense to me.
If a foreign intelligence service wanted to get you, the U.S is a good place to hide. A botched operation on U.S territory would have damaging consequences that probably outweigh just leaving her be