evidence: President Jack Ryan, it turns out, has set up an extra-legal agency, Hendley Associates, known to its members as "The Campus." Not hindered by bureaucracy or politics and financially prosperous, Hendley Associates dedicates every aspect of its being and existence to the security of the Republic. Tellingly, Clancy began Teeth of the Tiger with a quotation from George Orwell: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."