About Gordon Aiken GORDON AIKEN was a soldier, lawyer, judge, writer, and for 15 years Member of Parliament for Parry Sound-Muskoka - the same region in which the events of this novel took place a century earlier. He was author of The Backbencher. He died in 2000. Books by Gordon Aiken No Return A novel of the Canadian election that vanished in Muskoka's backwoods by (author) Gordon Aiken