Possible Clues:

• Level in rugger, having lost every other one — win following defeat?
• Possible whodunit motive
• Nemesis rising, for example, over my dead body
• For instance, certainly not turning over what should be cooled before serving?
• Retaliation from dictator even genocidal
• Greene novel about opposing retaliation
• Whodunit motive, sometimes
• An eye for an eye, say -- not for turning
• Classic motive
• Retaliation, say, not uprising