Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs is a 2014 book by Irish author Paul Howard and is the fourteenth novel in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.

[7] To promote the book, Penguin Ireland erected "blue plaques" at sites in Dublin significant to Ross.

and that "the most effective chronicler of the frappuccino, cheese and vino years was not some superhip social realist but a working-class former journalist, Paul Howard, writing as an upper-middle-class grotesque.

"[15] On Writing.ie, Declan Madden praised it, saying it was "a little darker then [sic] previous titles […] but had plenty of laugh out loud moments and was full of Ross’ usual humour.

"[16] In the Irish Independent, Ian O'Doherty wrote that "There's an old rule in TV comedy that once you start sending your characters on exotic holidays, you're close to jumping the shark.