For this week’s Favorite Thing, we bring you The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Glamorous Story of Power, Profits, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe, the tale of behind-the-scenes intrigue at Jimmy Choo, the luxury shoe brand with the soap opera background. It’s the tale of many machinations, many different owners (three in less than one decade), and clashes of outsized personalities, incuding Jimmy Choo (yes, he exists!), the Malaysian shoemaking talent; Tamara Mellon, the celebrity president (and her parents); Matthew Mellon, her former husband and an American banking scion–cum–party guy; and Robert Bensoussan, a farsighted CEO and entrepreneur—among dozens of other celebrities and characters.

Sounds like pretty good summer reading, right? We thought so, too, so we’re giving away a free copy of The Towering World of Jimmy Choo to one lucky Fantastic Toe member. To enter your name in our contest, just post a picture to your Fantastic Toe collection between now and the end of June. If you’re not yet a member of Fantastic Toe, you can join here.

Anyone who posts a picture between now and 6/30/09 will be automatically entered into the contest. We’ll pick the winner by random drawing on 7/1/09, and will notify the winner by email.