Talent

I'm re-reading The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst. He's riding the subway in Paris when a man walks up to him and hands him an envelope and walks off. When he gets back to the office he opens the envelope and there is a sheet of paper with the detailed plans for a torpedo. He sits down with co-workers in the Reuters office to talk about what they should do with it. They ask the one woman in the group, a chemist, what she thinks of this drawing. They ask her because she is only with any technical competence, the rest of them can barely change a light bulb.

Note - Found this in my Drafts folder, originally written two years ago.