The Sunday Man, by Gavin Robertson

Peter Wilson has got quite enough on his plate worrying about the mathematics of giant locust swarms and the horrifying truth behind the Biblical plagues. But when a bomb goes off at a scientific conference he’s attending, he is reluctantly drawn into a conspiracy involving international pharmaceutical companies, a mysterious tribal inheritance and a world-famous cellist – a conspiracy as bewilderingly complex and deadly as the behaviour of his beloved locusts.